Anthropogeny Graduate Specialization experience

This lecture will share the experience of working towards a Ph.D. in biology at UC San Diego with tales and insights gleaned as a student of human origins in CARTA’s Anthropogeny Graduate Specialization. Nicholas Nelson investigates the neuroscience of chronic pain, yet his most impactful graduate school experience was found outside of the lab. He will share how digging and hunting for food and singing and dancing around the fire with a tribe of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania while on the Anthropogeny Field Course has been an enormous gift that enhanced his studies and shaped him as a biologist and a person trying to do right in the world.