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A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, comes via Latin pygmaeus from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaîos, derived from πυγμή pygmḗ, meaning "short cubit", or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the elbow to the first knuckle of the middle finger, meant to express pygmies' diminutive stature.
Microcephaly (from Neo-Latin microcephalia, from Ancient Greek μικρός mikrós "small" and κεφαλή kephalé "head" [2]) is a medical condition involving a smaller-than-normal head. [3] Microcephaly may be present at birth or it may develop in the first few years of life. [ 3 ]
Dwarfism is a condition of people and animals marked by unusually small size or short stature. [1] In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dwarfism is 120 centimetres (4 ft).
India: 76 cm (30 in) Ajay Kumar: Indian actor and director known for holding the Guinness World Records for being the shortest actor to play a character in a full-length film 1976– United States: 81 cm (32 in) [3] Verne Troyer: American actor and stunt performer best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films. [3] [4]
A human fossil discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores is physically extremely tiny. But in the grand scope of history, it is monumentally large. Scholars are rekindling the debate ...
Jyoti Kishanji Amge (born 16 December 1993) [1] is an Indian actress notable for being the world's shortest living woman according to the Guinness World Records. [4] [5] [6] ...
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The Toto people are one of the world's smallest indigenous ethnic groups, living in a village of Totopara on India's border with Bhutan. [2] [3] Totos were nearly becoming extinct in the 1950s, but recent measures to safeguard their areas from being swamped with outsiders have helped preserve their unique heritage and also helped the population ...