CARTA 10th Anniversary: Revisiting the Agenda

Summary
More than 20 years ago, a small group of La Jolla academics began periodic meetings for transdisciplinary discussions on anthropogeny (explaining the origin of humans)––an effort that blossomed into an international intellectual collaborative organized by UC San Diego and the Salk Institute as the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA). At the formal opening of CARTA just over 10 years ago a group of CARTA leaders and advisors attempted to “define the agenda”. Much additional relevant information has since emerged, and an expanded group of experts will now revisit the agenda by addressing the following questions on a broad array of selected topics: What do we know for certain? What do we think we know? What do we need to know? How do we proceed?––Effectively, a whirlwind tour of many but not all approaches to anthropogeny.

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Event Sessions

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Date	Media	Session Title	Speakers
Sat 3/23		Opening Remarks	Fred Gage, Salk Institute Elizabeth Simmons, University of California, San Diego David Brenner, University of California, San Diego
Sat 3/23		Comparative Cognition in Primates	Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University
Sat 3/23		Behavior & Ecology	James Moore, Assoc. Prof. Emeritus, Anthropology Dept, UCSD
Sat 3/23		Paleoanthropology & Comparative Anatomy	William Kimbel, Arizona State University
Sat 3/23		Nutrition & Paleodiet	Margaret Schoeninger, University of California, San Diego
Sat 3/23		Comparative Genomics	Evan Eichler, University of Washington School of Medicine
Sat 3/23		Ancient DNA of Humans and Their Pathogens	Anne Stone, Arizona State University
Sat 3/23		Human Population Genetics and Origins	Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Sat 3/23		Comparative Medicine	Ajit Varki, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Sat 3/23		Mental Disease	Daniel Geschwind, University of California, Los Angeles
Sat 3/23		Hunter-Gatherers/ Life History & Reproduction	Kristen Hawkes, University of Utah
Sat 3/23		Parenting and Child Development	Alyssa Crittenden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sat 3/23		Comparative Brain Anatomy	Katerina Semendeferi, University of California, San Diego
Sat 3/23		Language	David Perlmutter, University of California, San Diego
Sat 3/23		Computational Neuroscience	Terry Sejnowski, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sat 3/23		Cultural Evolution and Dual Inheritance	Joseph Henrich, Harvard University
Sat 3/23		Morality & Cooperation	Patricia Churchland, University of California, San Diego
Sat 3/23		Closing Remarks	Pascal Gagneux, University of California, San Diego

Event Glossary

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