What does global warming sound like? How are religion and intelligence linked? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 22-29 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Big news in evolution and genetics this week, with pioneering primate cloning, work on genetically engineering corn for nutrition and a rethink of humanity's history. These are just some of the ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past week. Here is the full round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections:

Fossils at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco suggests humans left 

Africa earlier than previously thought. 

Credit: Rolf Quam, Binghamton University

• What You Need to Know About Today's Huge Discovery in Human Evolution by John Wenz at Popular Mechanics
• These baby monkeys are first cloned primates created using the Dolly method by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• To fight malnutrition, geneticists are developing more nutritious corn by Nicole Haloupek at GSA Genes to Genomes
• CancerSEEK – the ‘holy grail’ of cancer diagnosis? by Kelli Gallacher at The Biochemist Blog
• Just one cigarette a day can cause serious heart problems at New Scientist
• Dropping the Beat with Some Geoscience Data by Kimberly M. S. Cartier at EOS
• Where are You Going in 2018 (Cosmically Speaking)? by Corey S. Powell at Out There
• Physicists Create Mini Gamma-Ray Burst in the Lab at Sci-News.com 
• Are religious people really less smart, on average, than atheists? by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Artificial Intelligence's 'Black Box' Is Nothing to Fear by Vijay Pande at The New York Times
• The Confusing Social Lives of Fiddler Crabs by K. N. Smith at Hakai Magazine
• Stranger than fiction? New spiders found in Brazil named after creatures from popular fantasy stories by Mike Gaworecki at Mongabay
• In California’s Sierra Nevada, Putting the Trees to Work by Julie Cart at KQED News
• More than half of Europe’s forests lost over 6,000 years by Genevieve Belmaker at Mongabay
• For Florida Panthers, Extinction Comes on 4 Wheels by John R Platt at Extinction Countdown
• As you do unto us by Izabella Laba at The Accidental Mathematician

Check back next week for more great picks - and if you're a science writer or communicator, don't forget to enter ScienceSeeker's 2018 awards!