Predicting extinction. Your child's brain on music. Legal pot: pitfalls and profit.

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• Sify picks up coverage of a new mathematical model developed by Concordia researchers that can be used to chart the evolution of a given species and predict its possible extinction. Lea Popovic, associate professor of mathematics and statistics in Concordia's Faculty of Arts and Science, and recent Concordia graduate Mariolys Rivas (PhD '14) used a tree-shaped model called a Yule-tree to show how the evolutionary process unfolded over time. The study was published in Mathematical Biology.
  
• Marie France Asia references a 2013 study led by Virginia Penhune, chair of and a professor in the Department of Psychology, and Robert J. Zatorre, a researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, explained how musical training before the age of seven had a significant and beneficial effect on brain development.
• Afrique Expansion quotes James McIntosh, professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science, from an earlier article in Les affaires (June 18, 2016). It refers to his study of various approaches to legal and decriminalized marijuana around the world, as Canada ponders the potential pitfalls and anticipated benefits of marijuana legalization in this country. 

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