CARTA at UCSD
The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) is a virtual organization formed in order to promote transdisciplinary research into human origins, drawing on methods from a number of traditional disciplines spanning the humanities, social, biomedical, biological, computational & engineering and physical & chemical sciences.
The Quest for Human Origins
CARTA 2023 Anthropogeny Field Course
Permanent body modification: archaeological and early historical evidence
A multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body
Writing Plague: Myth, Morality, and Modernity
Cultural Universals? Folktales, Animals, and the Human Search for Origins
Why Do Humans Tell Stories?
Learning by Experiment: Continually Evolving Machines
What Language Models Mean
Common Sense and AI
The Evolution of Syntax and Pragmatics in a Gradualist Scenario
Rising Star Cave’s Chambers of Secrets
The Brains Behind Morality
The Evolutionary Roots of Human Sociality
Fossil Record of Human Origins
One Health and Emerging Diseases
Evolution of the Human Diet
Stem Cells and Human Evolution
Music, Dance, Evolution: The Origins and Consequences of Human Musicality
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