At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

You can trace the family tree

Of every Homo sapiens progeny

CARTA – scrappy like a start-up

Sketch out the ancestry we’re all part of

UCSD, peace to the humans

At the Organizational Research Unit

CARTA – from Germany to Jakarta

Yeah they got a mission, you can read the charter

To seek all verifiable facts that we

Can gather ethically and rationally

On the origins of humanity

Among interdisciplinary faculty

To raise awareness and understanding

In the public and among the academy

And plus, to skip the bureaucracy

‘Cause hominids just want to be free

To study the genesis of human beings

That’s the meaning of “Anthropogeny”

At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

You can trace the family tree

Of every Homo sapiens progeny

At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

It’s all about Medicine, Anthropology

Genetics and Archaeology

“Check your ego at the door” Quincy Jones

Follow facts and see where they go

Bring together the best in every discipline

Get Ajit Varki the Scientific Physician in

And every symposium, go bigger

Get the PaleoDiet from Margaret Schoeninger

Let the plasticity discovered in brains

Of adults get explained by Rusty Gage

Bring the human together with the animal

On a panel with Pascal Gagneux 

‘Cause all mammals share many genes

Check the glycoproteins of chimpanzees!

Let the experts debate the origins 

Of a certain primate, let it percolate

To discover the ways that nature can shape

A very paradoxical ape

At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

You can trace the family tree

Of every Homo sapiens progeny

At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

It’s all about Endocrinology

Linguistics and Biology

CARTA –  questions get brought up

When did each key adaptation pop up?

From a chimp to an australopithecine

To a Twitter feed to a TikTok meme

CARTA – sharpen tools and dig smarter

Trade ideas, intellectual barter

Every finding and fossilized bone

From a new hominid with a new genome

To sequence, dig into the chamber of secrets

The brain, the cell, the DNA deletions

And repetitions, recipes for uniqueness

Bring another discipline of expertise in

Culture, beliefs, and normativity

Organism with metaphors and similes

Organize the story scientifically

Genesis for the 21st Century

At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

You can trace the family tree

Of every Homo sapiens progeny

At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

It’s all about Primatology

Engineering and Physiology

At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

You can trace the family tree

Of every Homo sapiens progeny

At the Center for Academic Research 

And Training in Anthropogeny

It’s all about Computational Science

And Cognitive Psychology