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Migrating birds may be paler colours to help them keep cool

Overheating is a serious issue for birds flying long distances, and paler plumage that reflects more of the sun's heat may be one of the ways they cope

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ANKARA, TURKEY - MARCH 31 : A worker uses a metal cutter on a rail on Ankaray subway line during night shift in Ankara, Turkey on March 31, 2018. Long rapid transit line of the Ankara Metro system has been operating for 23 years. Ankaray operates approximately 180 runs on daily basis, with 11 cars. Length of the transit line reaches about 9 kilometers. Night shift workers compete against time while cutting old rails and replacing them with the new ones until the first run in the morning. (Photo by Mustafa Kamaci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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Night-shift workers who eat only in the day may cut diabetes risk

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A man measures a woman's height

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Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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An Ardipethecus ramidus skull found in Awash, Ethiopia

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Canine teeth shrank in human ancestors at least 4.5 million years ago

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What can we can learn from being the last type of human left standing?

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Survival of the friendliest? Why Homo sapiens outlived other humans

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Upper central deciduous incisor

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Neanderthals may have grown their baby teeth faster than we do

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Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains from the species. The enlarged detail (a photograph of the fossils in articulation on the left; micro-computed tomography models on the right) shows the newly discovered fossils, in colour on the right between previously known elements in grey. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. [? Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres?sangle]

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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

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13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves

Questions that are just as enigmatic now as when we first asked them

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Why does evolution happen? The rules on Earth may well be universal

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Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

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Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller

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Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

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