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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.Got a minute?

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The term pygmy usually refers to a few groups of short-statured people in equatorial rain forest regions in Africa.

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The existence of distinct populations of such people presented scientists with the opportunity to study the mechanisms by which typical human growth patterns have become altered there.

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And they discovered that two groups became small in two different ways.

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The study is in the journal Nature Communications.

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The researchers collected data on some 500 members of a West African ethnic group called the Baka.

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They discovered that Baka infants have a similar size range to most other infants,

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but have a low growth rate during their first two years, which produces a lasting effect.

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This mechanism seems to be different from that of the East African groups called the Efe and Sua.

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These peoples have slow prenatal growth, so that the infants are born smaller.

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The researchers say that the Baka population appears to have split from the Efe and Sua some 20,000 years ago.

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The two different systems for achieving small stature,which appears to be advantageous in the equatorial rainforest environment are thus an example of convergent evolution.

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The researchers believe the findings say something important about human evolution and development in general:

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"Homo sapiens could therefore be characterized by its high capacity for growth plasticity during infancy.

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This capacity, which may be unique to our species, may have played a fundamental role in the biological adaptation that enabled its worldwide expansion and occupation of dissimilar environments within a short period after moving out of Africa."

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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