THE difference between savages and civilized men is not so marked as is the likeness between them. I propose to consider a race of men possessing characteristics which seem to make them an exception ...

Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have both led to ...

All African Pygmies, inhabiting a large territory extending west-to-east along Central Africa, descend from a unique population who lived around 20,000 years ago, according to an international study ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...

For thousands of years Pygmies have lived in harmony with equatorial Africa's magnificent jungles. They inhabit a narrow band of tropical rain forest about four degrees above and four degrees below ...

KINSHASA, Congo -- Yongela Bongo hid the secret from her husband for the seven years they were married. But when he finally discovered the truth, he kicked her out on the street -- keeping their six ...

In your genome, you carry many genetic changes that you inherited from your ancestors. Those variants represent your own genetic history. By studying patterns of genetic variation in many people, our ...

The enlightened wags of America blamed his intellectual shortcomings when an undersized African man named Ota Benga put a pistol to his breast and committed suicide a century ago. Though his end came ...

In your genome, you carry many genetic changes that you inherited from your ancestors. Those variants represent your own genetic history. By studying patterns of genetic variation in many people, our ...