The short stature of Pygmies may stem from an evolutionary odd turn: an offshoot of genetic activity to resist diseases, not an end in itself. Josh Fischman reports.

The Grim Reaper can cut life short and, under the right circumstances, whittle those still standing down to the size of pygmies. That’s the controversial conclusion of a new study, published in ...

Liang Bua cave on Flores Island, where Homo floresiensis remains were discovered in 2003. Nearby is a village where the pygmies live. Wikimedia Commons Geneticist Serena Tucci sat in the small ...

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 ...

Island-dwelling pygmies provide contested evidence that body size shrinks as mortality rates climb. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today Every print subscription comes with full digital access.

The famous and disappearing cattle keepers of Sudan are featured in a new book, Dinka. In our new coffee table series, we feature Angela Fish and Carol Beckwith’s photographs.

African pygmies may be older than thought. Ancestors of small-bodied hunter-gatherers and taller farming groups in Africa may have separated about 60,000 years ago ...

Deep in the Congolese rain forest, a group of Pygmies lives in near isolation from Western music. When a team of scientists played them music from Star Wars and Psycho, the results were surprising.