NewOrleansboii (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@an5d5ers O yeah, they are very must the same as any European, or me. Genetics, and the ability to interbreed proves this. Humans and Chimpanzee are similar. Wolves and Dogs are similar. But Humans, and Humans are the same. Pygmy are humans. Now, your "Collective" racial pride may conflict with this, but truth and facts dominates all. Sorry.

an5d5ers (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@NewOrleansboii they are not the same... we are similar, but not the same..

MrToiletface (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

look at the silly lil monkeys

photoman2004 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Someone should teach them how to build steel trusses.

Albacorewing (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@moatwog The hunter gatherers/less organized people always had to go extinct when confronted with the newcomers, or adapt/convert and be absorbed (some always did) or migtate to other lands, often poorer lands. The Pygmy confrontation with the Bantus is mirrored by the Ainu confrontation with the Yayoi, the Neanderthals with the Cro-Magnons, and the Celts with the Germanic/Roman peoples. Unfortunately, this is the way of human beings.

Albacorewing (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@moatwog I think that the short and skinny stature that Pygmies and San people show is a development that came in the last few thousand years or so. Most of human history we don't know. But keep in mind that there was a world of difference between the first modern humans of which the Pygmies seem to be close to, and the organized peoples like the Romans, Zulus, Japanese, Hawaiians, etc. The organized ones always prevailed for good or for bad. See next post

Albacorewing (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@moatwog The small or gracile Pygmies and San people might be the closest in appearance to the first of our species. But the first modern humans spawned more advanced peoples, who drove these first modern humans into less desirable lands, as the San were driven by the Bantu expansion. I think though that the very first anatomically modern humans were tall in stature. Homo Rhodesiensis seems our ancestor, and he was tall and rather robust but not yet H. Sapiens.

Albacorewing (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@NewOrleansboii There seems to be some recent evidence that H. Sapiens first achieved speciesization farther south, in Southern Africa, or perhaps lived there in ecological refugia during periods of extreme drought. I always wondered about the people in NW Africa along the Mediterranean coast. These I think were absorbed by H. Sap when it expanded, as the Neanderthals were.

downwiththemaster (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

jesus this almost movie like

HaiLsKuNkY (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

the guy with Nike trainers at 07:32