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 ...

In the Iliad, Homer invoked mythical warfare between Pygmies and a flock of cranes to describe the intensity of a charge by the Trojan army. In the fifth century B.C., the Greek historian Herodotus ...

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... In many ways, music and emotion almost seem ...

KINSHASA, Congo -- Yongela Bongo hid the secret from her husband for the seven years they were married. But when he finally discovered the truth, he kicked her out on the street -- keeping their six ...

For Pygmies logging the rain forests of central Africa, the chain saw's whine signals the promise of work _ and threatens a way of life. As Republic of Congo's timber industry revs up after years of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In what may seem like a David-versus-Goliath contest, Pygmy forest-dwellers from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday challenged the World Bank over logging in the ...