Adaptive, convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype in African rainforest hunter-gatherers

Tropical rainforest hunter-gatherer populations worldwide share the pygmy phenotype, or small human body size. The evolutionary history of this phenotype is largely unknown. Here we studied DNA from the Batwa, a rainforest hunter-gatherer population from east central Africa, to identify regions of the Batwa genome that underlie the pygmy phenotype. We then performed population genomic analyses to study the evolution of these regions, including comparisons with the Baka, a west central African rainforest hunter-gatherer population. We conclude that the pygmy phenotype likely arose due to positive natural selection and that it arose possibly multiple times within Africa. These results support longstanding anthropological hypotheses that small body size confers an important selective advantage for human rainforest hunter-gatherers.

Margaret Goldsmith, Ein Fremder in Paris. P. List Verl. Leipzig [Rezension]

Bertha Badt

Hole in the Head: a Play, Accompanied by a Conspectus of Knowledge, Both Repressed and Researched, that Directly Influenced the Playwright in Her Development of a New Work

"Hole in the Head" is a play about a woman who wakes up. Maude wakes up in the first act, and in every subsequent scene she undergoes some form of physical or emotional awakening as characters walk in and out of her front door."Hole in the Head" is accompanied by an introduction that attempts to understand the interplay between creativity and academia through an analysis of theatre, feminist and queer theory, and science.

Margaret Paton als Jacqueline, Alec Fraser als Réné, Szenenfoto, in: Anthony Mars: The girl in the taxi

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William Hunter Kendal, Rollenbild

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William Hunter Kendal, Kniestück

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Margaret MacIntyre, Brustbild

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Margaret OH̀ea, Brustbild

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Ellen Terry als Margaret, Rollenbild, Kniestück

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