Recently in the headlines

• Nature EMBOR: Speak to me, melody: Music's biological roots with language under scrutiny
• SD: Form or function: Evolution takes different paths, genetic study shows
• NYT: From a songbird, new insights into the brain (this has gotten a lot of coverage)
• SD: New period of brain 'plasticity' created with transplanted embryonic cells
• arXiv: The pace of evolution across fitness valleys
• SD: Why certain symmetries are never observed in nature
• SD: Hyenas' laughter signals decoded
• SD: How does a heart know when it's big enough?
• SD: In brain-injured children, early gesturing predicts language delays
• SD: Autism susceptibility genes identified
• SD: Words influence infants' cognition from first months of life
• SD: Human brain becomes tuned to voices and emotional tone during infancy