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Pygmy puberty put under the microscope

A new hypothesis regarding evolutionary adaption in pygmies contends that their small body size is a side effect of early sexual maturation, where the body’s resources are allocated to reproduction rather than growth. The study, by University of Cambridge anthropologists Jay Stock and Andrea Migliano, appears in the journal Current Anthropology. There are several existing […]

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