NAIROBI, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the remote Central African rainforest, two major charities are battling over the future of some 50,000 pygmies, beset by poverty, hunger and alcoholism ...

Wild orangutans, pygmy elephants, a rainforest older than the Amazon, and somehow, nobody in your friend group has been yet.

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 ...

A few kilometres south of the resort town of Kribi lies the mouth of the Lobe River where a spectacular cascade discharges rainforest waters into the sea. Just visible on the horizon is the Kribi ...

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 ...

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 ...