TLDR
AI-generated science is now "good enough"
The "AI Scientist" is mediocre and uninspired. Don't dismiss it.
TLDR
You and a frog might have the same taste in music
Citizen science revealed a shared "taste for the beautiful" across species
Brain
More than words: prosody in the brain
The brain's dedicated hardware for handling the melody of speech overlaps with regions involved in language processing and recognizing facial expressions.
Q&A
There's no gene for being human
Barbara Molz found supposedly extinct ancient gene variants in hundreds of modern humans. They don't seem to do much.