CARTA Member Publications
CARTA encourages transdisciplinary research to advance our understanding of human origins and provides a forum for researchers from disparate fields "to explore and explain the human phenomenon.” This page lists select publications with one or more CARTA member authors.
Displaying 551 - 575 of 1207 publications
2017
. The Evolution and Functions of Nuclei of the Visual Pulvinar in Primates. J. Comp. Neurol. 2017;525.
. The evolution of Mammalian Brains from early Mammals to present-day Primates. In: Watanabe, S, Hofman, M, Shimizu, T, eds. Evolution of the Brain, Cognition and Emotion. Springer, Japan. 2017, p.59-80.
. The Expansion of the Cortical Sheet in Primates. In: Kaas, J, eds. Evolution of Nervous Systems, 2nd edition. Oxford: Academic Press. 2017, p.59 - 71.
. The First Humans. OUPblog. Oxford University Press. 2017.
. The human brain: Evolution and distinctive features. In: Tibayrenc, M, Ayala, F, eds. On Human Nature. Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion. Oxford: Elsevier. 2017, p.125-149.
. The Invention of Consciousness. Topoi. 2017.
. The Organization of Neocortex in Early Mammals. In: Evolution of Nervous Systems, 2nd edition. Oxford: Academic Press. 2017, p.87 - 101.
. The postcranial skeletal maturation of Australopithecus sediba. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2017;163:633-640.
. The Role of Death Denial in Culture and Consciousness. In: Scott, R, Buchmann, M, Kosslyn, S, eds. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. 2017, p. 1–16.
. The Theory That Changed Everything: “On the Origin of the Species” as a Work in Progress. New York: Columbia University Press. 2017.
. Two Orangutan Species Have Evolved Different KIR Alleles and Haplotypes. Journal of Immunology. 2017;198:3157-3169.
. What Makes the Human Brain Special: Key Features of Brain and Neocortex. In: The Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders. Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems. Switzerland: Springer, Cham. 2017;11:2-22.
. Why doesn’t a songbird (the European starling) use pitch to recognize tone sequences? The Informational Independence hypothesis. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews. 2017;12:19-32.
. “Catching” social bias: Exposure to biased nonverbal signals creates social biases in preschool children. Psychological science. 2017;28(2).
2016
. 267 Spanish Exomes Reveal Population-Specific Differences in Disease-Related Genetic Variation. Mol Biol Evol. 2016;33:1205-18.
. A Mouse Model for Dietary Xenosialitis: ANTIBODIES TO XENOGLYCAN CAN REDUCE FERTILITY. J Biol Chem. 2016;291:18222-31.
. A natural history of human morality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2016.
. A neuroanatomical predictor of mirror self-recognition in chimpanzees. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2016.
. A Riddle Written on the Brain. J Conscious Stud. 2016;23 :278-287.
. Abnormal Gamma Oscillations in N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Hypofunction Models of Schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry. 2016;79:716-26.
. Allosteric Modulation as a Unifying Mechanism for Receptor Function and Regulation. Cell. 2016;166:1084-102.
. Ape malaria transmission and potential for ape-to-human transfers in Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016;113:5329-34.
. Approaches to the Study of Brain Evolution. In: Shepherd, SV, eds. The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2016.
. Assessing statistical significance in multivariable genome wide association analysis. Bioinformatics. 2016;32:1990-2000.






















