Deep in the Dja Faunal Reserve in southeast Cameroon, Baka Pygmies endeavor to live as they have always done: off the forest and firmly within it. Anthropologists estimate the Baka hunter-gatherer ...

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 after they were evicted from their lands ...

Loggers are moving a hardwood trunk towards the lorry that will transport the wood into Cameroon and to Douala, the nearest port. Paul Raffaele Pygmies dance in a welcoming ceremony for their ...

Members of a village in Cameroon who are Pygmies. (Image credit: Evan Leach) Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery.

Ms. Tishkoff has led a new genetic analysis of Pygmies in Cameroon—a group with an average height of 4 feet 11 inches—that has identified a “master gene” for immune response that is much ...

Cameroon's pygmies ensnared in charity giants' rainforest feud. ... In the remote Central African rainforest, two major charities are battling over the future of some 50,000 pygmies, ...

Researchers analyzed the genomes, the "building code" that directs how an organism is put together, of Western African Pygmies in Cameroon, whose men average 4 feet, 11 inches tall, and compared ...

Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, ... of Western African Pygmies in Cameroon, whose men average 4 feet, 11 inches tall, ...