Robert Franciscus's guest appearances

Robert Franciscus

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio)

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video)

David Tilman

Jason Mitchell

Jessica Thompson

David Perlmutter

Rob Knight

Tim Weaver

Richard Wrangham

Helen Fisher

Robert Kelly

Daniel Dennett

Baba Brinkman

Martin Rees

Simon Baron-Cohen

Nicholas Humphrey

Bruce Miller

OwlTail

Carta

Robert Franciscus (Univ of Iowa) explains that anatomically modern humans are recognized in the fossil record primarily by retraction and diminution of the facial skeleton compared to pre-modern “archaic” humans.  He then describes a promising model for the advent of facial diminution, which suggests that anatomically modern humans represent a ‘self-domesticated’ species where selection for increased social tolerance led to growth and developmental alterations producing craniofacial “feminization,” which itself results in a phenotypic signal of reduced aggressiveness. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 28897]

CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution - Robert Franciscus: Craniofacial Feminization in Canine and Human Evolution