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 ...

In a small corner of the civil war-ravaged Central African Republic lives a tribe of strikingly small people struggling to keep their ancient culture intact. The Ba’Aka, rarely seen by Westerners, ...

NOT long after my settlement at Ndombe, the town of a remarkable monarch of the same name, the king of the Balunda tribes around Wissmann Falls, Central Africa, an odd-looking creature came up to my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of pygmies sheltering from the rain in Mubambiro village, near Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo The pygmies of West ...

(Zenger News) – A Congolese Pygmy hunter–gatherer tribe has seen its members succumb to alcoholism as logging companies and conservation groups abuse and coerce them into relinquishing their ...

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 ...

Scientists say they have found a genetic clue to the history of Africa's pygmies, who they say traded with other tribes but did not interbreed with them. Gene analysis has revealed some answers to a ...

The African pygmies, an ethnic group characterized by proportionate shortness of stature, attain normal plasma concentrations of human growth hormone (HGH) after arginine infusion and insulin-induced ...