The next UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) Public Symposium on Explaining the Origin of Humans, entitled, "Human and Non-Human Cultures", will be Friday afternoon, October 2nd, 2009 at UCSD's Institute of the Americas, Hojel Hall of the Americas Auditorium from 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Admission is Free, but Registration is required. Please send an e-mail to: cartaadmin@ucsd.edu.

Symposium Chair
James J. Moore, University of California, San Diego

Speakers Donald Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara Human Cultural Universals: How and Where They Differ

Rupert Stasch, University of California, San Diego Cultural Reflexivity in Human Cultures

Susan Perry, University of California, Los Angeles Social Learning and Traditions in Wild Capuchin Monkeys

Hal Whitehead, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Cultures of the Open Ocean: The Sperm Whale

Peter Tyack, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Vocal Learning in Dolphins and Parrots

Andrew Whiten, University of St. Andrews, Scotland The Cultural Worlds of Child and Chimpanzee

Jonathan Friedman, University of California, San Diego The Cultural as Emergent Order: What Francois Jacob tells Claude Lévi-Strauss

Ajit Varki, Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD Fred H. Gage, Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Margaret J. Schoeninger, Professor of Anthropology, UCSD CARTA Co-Directors

Pascal Gagneux, Assistant Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD CARTA Associate Director

Supported by the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation and Annette C. Merle-Smith.