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Anthropogeny

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Anthropogeny

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Support the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) at UC San Diego

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Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) at UC San Diego

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UCTV Sep 2019: Innovator Stories; Anthropogeny: Perspective from Africa; Pain and Addiction

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Dr. Pascal Gagneux on "Comparative Anthropogeny: Exploring The Human-Ape Paradox"

Anthropogeny is the study of human origins. It is not simply a synonym for human evolution by natural selection, which is only a part of the processes involved in human origins. Many other factors besides biological evolution were involved, ranging over climatic, geographic, ecological, social, and cultural ones. Anthropogenesis, meaning the process or point of becoming human, is also called hominization.