Pygmy populations have short life cycles as an adaptation for life in the rainforest (it doesn't seem to be only due to poor nutrition or living conditions). It might be hard to adapt to the modern knowledge-based economy when you're likely to be dead and/or a grandparent by graduation time.Brive1987 wrote: Where the fuck did all these Pygmy experts come from?
My 2c is that the little nuggets need to adapt to the first world and deliver quantifiable value.
https://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpre ... ies-small/
Pygmies around the world are short in life expectancy as well as height, with the average adult dying at 16-24 years of age. Only 30-50% of children survive to the age of 15 and less than a third of women live to see menopause at 37. Taller African groups like the Ache or Turkana have lower adult mortality and twice the average lifespan, and compared to them, the pygmies’ pattern is closer to that of chimps.