Research

CARTA is a virtual organization that does not primarily fund, direct, nor organize research by its members. Rather CARTA seeks to facilitate transdisciplinary research to advance our understanding of human origins through its various operations. These include: 1) hosting public symposia on human origins and related topics; 2) offering a specialization track in anthropogeny to graduate students at UC San Diego; 3) compiling a Matrix of Comparative Anthropogeny (MOCA), a collection of MOCA topics that highlight comparative information regarding humans and our closest evolutionary cousins (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans i.e, "great apes"), with an emphasis on uniquely human features; and 4) curating a Museum of Primatology, a collection of human, chimpanzee, and macaque skeletons. Many of these transdisciplinary interactions are reflected in CARTA-Inspired Publications, a list of research publications that would not have occurred if CARTA had not existed.

CARTA-Inspired Publications	MOCA