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 101 - 125 of 1191 publications
2025
. What enables human language? A biocultural framework. Science. 2025;390(6775).
. What is a society? Building an interdisciplinary perspective and why that's important. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 2025;48:e51.
. Who made the Oldowan? Reviewing African hominin fossils and archaeological sites from 3.5 million years ago. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 2025;79:101704.
2024
. A Data-Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate. Quaternary Environments and Humans. 2024, p.100037.
. Art and communication in Iberia and beyond. In: Arte, pensamiento simbólico, modos de vida en la Prehistoria. Santander: Editorial Universidad de Cantabria. 2024, p.173-188.
. Assigning a social status from face adornments: an fMRI study. Brain Structure and Function. 2024;229(5):1103-1120.
. Development and evolution of the primate neocortex from a progenitor cell perspective. Development. 2024;151(4).
. Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe. Nature Human Behaviour. 2024;8(3):431-444.
. Father time: A natural history of men and babies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2024.
. Functional synergy of a human-specific and an ape-specific metabolic regulator in human neocortex development. Nature Communications. 2024;15(1).
. Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2024;8(3):552-563.
. Lysine-Cysteine-Serine-Tryptophan inserted into the DNA-binding domain of human mineralocorticoid receptor increases transcriptional activation by aldosterone. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 2024;243:106548.
. Maternal Education is a Major Factor in Growth Regulation in Twins and Singletons. Journal of Comprehensive Pediatrics. 2024;15:e145017.
. Neocortical neurogenesis in development and evolution—Human‐specific features. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2024;532(2).
. Neuroimaging genomics as a window into the evolution of human sulcal organization. Cereb Cortex. 2024;34(3):bhae078.
. Paleolithic eyed needles and the evolution of dress. Science Advances. 2024;10(26):eadp2887.
. Predictive sequence learning in the hippocampal formation. 2024;112(15):2645 - 2658.e4.
. Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2024.
. Role of cell metabolism in the pathophysiology of brain size-associated neurodevelopmental disorders. Neurobiology of Disease. 2024;199:106607.
. Soulful rhythm, dancing bodies: A review on spirituality, pain tolerance, and the risk of lower extremity musculoskeletal and back injuries among classical Kathak dancers of India. Human Biology and Public HealthHBPH. 2024;1.
. Tooth in the spotlight: exploring the integration of archaeological and genetic data to build multidisciplinary narratives of the Past. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 2024;23(2).
. Transformers and cortical waves: encoders for pulling in context across time. 2024;47(10):788 - 802.

























