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I. IT is well known that there existed among the nations of antiquity a wide-spread belief in the existence of a race or caces of human beings of exceedingly diminutive stature, who o dwelt in some of the remote and unexplored regions of the earth. These were called Pygmies, a word said to be derived from πuγμη, which means a fist, and also a measure of length, the distance from the elbow to the knuckles of an ordinary-sized man, or rather more than 13 inches.
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The Pygmy Races of Men 1 . Nature 38, 44–46 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038044a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/038044a0