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 ...

One November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had ...

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 ...

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 ...

IDJWI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - On Idjwi, the largest island in Democratic Republic of Congo, a way of life is dying. Congo's Pygmies are among central Africa's oldest indigenous ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 21 (UNHCR) - Among the tens of thousands of displaced Congolese people living in camps in North Kivu province, the Pygmies are particularly vulnerable and ...