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Nowadays, relict populations of the pygmy race are found not only in central Africa, but also in many parts of southern Asia: Aeta in Philippines, Semang in Malaya, Mani in Thailand, the Andamanese tribes from the Andaman archipelago, Rampasasa from Flores island, and many pygmy tribes also inhabited the mountains of... |
11 March 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Pygmies make the smallest human race, but they are not dwarfs. Amongst those of pure blood, men have an average height of just 1.45 m (4 ft 10 in) and women of 1.33 m (4 ft, 1in), still they do not represent a dwarf variant of the Black Africans. Their body proportions are the same with those of other humans, that�... |
12 December 2007
02:52 GMT |
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Europeans regarded them as part of myths for long, the old Egyptian and Greek texts mentioned the existence of very short people in Africa. Ancient Greeks spoke about "Pugmaeus" ("foot" as a measure unit). But in 1874, a German explorer met the first pygmies ever seen by a European in the current Congo republic. Sti... |
30 November 2007
13:21 GMT |
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This is a dwarf among elephants: the pygmy elephant of Borneo is one meter (3 feet) shorter than its mainland Asian elephant counterparts and remarkably tame and passive. Now, these gentle creatures are menaced by the shrinking and fragmentation of their habitat, the forests.A new research made by the World Wide Fund... |
13 August 2007
03:06 GMT |
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Steatopygia is a high degree of fat accumulation in and around the buttocks. The deposit of fat is not confined to the buttock regions, but extends to the outside and front of the thighs, forming a thick layer reaching sometimes to the knee.This is a widespread genetic trait of the Khoisan (more commonly known as Bus... |
4 April 2007
11:09 GMT |
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Even if the old Egyptian and Greek texts mentioned the existence of very short people inside the heart of Africa, for a long time this was considered just a fiction. "Pygmaeus" in ancient Greek means feet. This was considered so till 1874, when a German explorer encountered the first pygmies ever seen by an European ... |
30 March 2007
11:45 GMT |
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