Pygmies
- plural of Pygmy.
Example Sentences
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A study which compared the different heights of Victorian youths, based on their class and their income - On British Pygmies and Giants - makes particularly shocking reading.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2016
With more genetic research into modern peoples, such as Tibetans in Asia, Pygmies in Africa, and Natives in the Americas, the significance of ancient and modern DNA studies is reverberating around the planet.
From Forbes ● Jun. 24, 2015
Eddie Izzard goes looking for his distant relatives among the Bakola Pygmies of Cameroon.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2013
“There were Pygmies in this village,” Kimball recalled.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2012
Instead, this evidence suggested that Pygmies had once been widespread in the rain forest of Central Africa, while Khoisan peoples had been widespread in drier parts of subequatorial Africa.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
