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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 ]
British comedian called "The Clitheroe Kid". [105] 1921–1973 United States: 129.5 cm (51.0 in) [106] Lester "Beetlejuice" Green: Comedian Entertainer known for his appearances on The Howard Stern Show. [103] 1968– United States: 132 cm (52 in) [107] Brad Williams: Comedian American comedian and radio personality. [108] 1984– United Kingdom
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).
In 1577, a lamb with three heads was born in Blandy, France, and illustrated in Ambroise Pare's Of Monsters and Prodigies. All three heads would bleat simultaneously, the center head being the largest of the three. It appears to have survived into adulthood. [29] Maine's Conant Museum had an adult sheep skeleton with two heads. [58]
A recent dig has uncovered several small but finely crafted clay heads. They bear similarities to modern depictions of aliens with elongated skulls, slanting eyes and flat noses. These traits ...
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 ...
Shrunken head from the Shuar people, on display in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. The process of creating a shrunken head begins with removing the skull from the neck. An incision is made on the back of the ear and all the skin and flesh is removed from the cranium. Red seeds are placed underneath the nostrils and the lips are sewn shut.