Pain is a fighter's constant companion. Few men alive are as intimately acquainted with the pain that is omnipresent in combat sports as much as Justin Wren. Not long after he was out of high school, ...

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 the ...

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 ...

While the stature of pygmies is well-suited to tropical rainforests, the mechanisms underlying their growth remain poorly understood. In order to decipher these mechanisms, a team of scientists ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ever since finding the remains of the "hobbits" — a small-statured species of ancient human — on ...

NOT long after my settlement at Ndombe, the town of a remarkable monarch of the same name, the king of the Balunda tribes around Wissmann Falls, Central Africa, an odd-looking creature came up to my ...

NORTH KIVU, Congo — Nana sleeps on a pillow of marijuana. It’s a trick his grandfather taught him to make the buds more potent, he explains while tending his sparse plot at the edge of a mud hut ...

When members of the BaYaka Pygmies living in the northern Republic of Congo get sick, they don't just go to the doctor for a prescription. Instead, they rely on their shared knowledge of medicinal ...

The Pith: There has been a long running argument whether Pygmies in Africa are short due to "nurture" or "nature." It turns out that non-Pygmies with more Pygmy ancestry are shorter and Pygmies with ...

Robert Siegel interviews filmmaker Lavinia Currier about the music used in her film Oka!, which depicts the journey of Louis Sarno, who traveled to the Central African Republic as an ethnomusicologist ...