Hello to all our blog readers – sorry we’ve been so quiet over the last month or so. Too much editing and not enough blog writing at My Blue Pencil HQ recently! We’ll try and redress the balance somewhat from now on.

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Still, we have to confess that this is just a quick recommendation post, letting everyone know that there is a fascinating pull-out section in this week’s New Scientist. The theme is ‘The Evolution of Language’ and it is largely based on the book of the same name by W. Tecumseh Fitch, professor of cognitive biology at the University of Vienna. Being one of New Scientist’s Instant Expert series, it takes the form of a briefing and is full of really fascinating insights, taking the reader from  Homo erectus to Darwin to contemporary genetics.

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There are some extracts here but it is, as the saying goes, available in all good newsagents now!

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