(Zenger News) – A Congolese Pygmy hunter–gatherer tribe has seen its members succumb to alcoholism as logging companies and conservation groups abuse and coerce them into relinquishing their ...

What phenomenon enabled the demographic growth of Bantu farmers in Africa and led to their genetic differentiation from the Pygmy hunter-gatherer communities? Up to now, scientists thought that the ...

Research on the genomes of Pygmy hunter-gatherer populations and Bantu farmers in Central Africa has shown for the first time that our habitat and lifestyle can have an impact on our epigenome -- the ...

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 ...

Jean moves deftly through the tangle of roots and branches before waiting for the rainforest to give him a clue. In the heart of the Dzanga-Sangha wildlife reserve in western Central African Republic, ...

The Mbendjele BaYaka are an Indigenous Congolese hunter-gatherer population, one of a number of “Pygmy” hunter-gatherer populations living in the rainforests of Central Africa. Although traditionally ...

Pygmy women in tattered sarongs squatted around several fires as they warmed water and cooked cassava. Most of the men were uncoiling large nets near the huts. About 100 Pygmies lived there. Through ...

I have written earlier about the interestings origins of musical instruments. In one post I traced the evolution of the Brazilianberimbau from pygmy hunter’s bow in the African rainforest to Angola, ...

There's an idea percolating up from the anthropology world that may make you rethink what makes you happy. The idea is not new. It surfaced in the popular consciousness back in the late 1960s and ...

In just two forest patches may dwell a tiny, little-known chameleon that researchers have dubbed the world’s most endangered. Chapman’s pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum) from Malawi hasn’t ...

West African pygmy populations vary more than their similarities in body size would indicate. A new genetic analysis of pygmy populations native to Gabon and Cameroon suggests they split apart from ...