Get Small Or Die

By Robert Lindsay

Why are Pygmies (a tiny Negroid people living in Central Africa) so

small?

Same reason folks living in tropical rainforests all over the world tend
to be small. In that environment, it's get small or die. Real simple.

A tropical rainforest is an unusual place. It's not 115 in the shade like
the deserts of the Middle East. It's more like 80-90 all year round.
While it's not extremely hot, it does have very high humidity - close to
100%. That creates a serious problem with cooling off.

At lesser humidity, you sweat a lot, and the lesser humidity allows the
sweat to evaporate. As it evaporates, the sweat cools. That's how you
cool off. A similar cooling by evaporation mechanism is used to cool off
your refrigerator.

When the humidity gets near 100%, your sweat stops evaporating.
You can sweat all day and night and it doesn't do much good. Our
body temperature of 98.6 runs the risk of rising, even past the survival
point of 107-108.

It's true that Pygmies sweat a lot, but not enough to save their hides.

As the website explains better than I can:

First, the surface area of a small body is greater in relation

to its volume.

It is a mathematical fact: if cube A in Fig. 1.4 is 1

centimeter along each side and cube B is 2 centimeters,
then A's surface area is one-quarter that of B, but its
volume is eight times smaller.

Heat is produced in the mass of the body, particularly in

the liver and muscles, and is lost through the surface; if
the latter is larger relative to body mass because a person
is small, heat loss is easier and cooling more efficient. In a
warm and humid environment, it is best to be small.
Next, Pygmies extend less effort because they are smaller. If you need
to use lots of energy, it's better to be smaller, because you need to
utilize less energy to keep moving if you are smaller. Marathoners tend
to be short. It takes less effort to move a smaller body around than it
takes to move a big body around, which is why smaller cars get better
mileage than bigger ones.

If you are transporting small loads, a pony is a better way to do it. You
need a horse for a large load, just like you need an 18-wheeler for big
hauls. The fact that a pony is better for the small stuff is why it was
used in the Pony Express. They produce more energy per food unit
consumed, the same way a Honda gets more energy miles per unit of
food gas than a Hummer does.

Pygmies are excellent at dissipating heat and expertly adapted to

living in the jungle where there is low carbohydrate and protein
reserve. They're sort of the human Priuses of the jungle.

No one knows how long Pygmies have been evolving. Some say that
tropical rainforests have only been around for 5,000 years or less. I
disagree. Some gene studies show that Pygmies and other Africans
may have split as far back as 70,000 years before present (YBP).

The main problem here is a lack of fossils in the rainforest. Things

decay so fast there that we hardly find the bones of anything.
However, there have been skulls found around Central African Republic
and north into the Sahel. Here Negroids (modern Blacks) evolved over
the past 6-12,000 years. Prior to that, Africans looked like either
Khoisan types or Pygmy types.

Pygmies are very athletic and graceful. A Pygmy can shimmy up a tree
100 feet with striking agility.

Pygmies are not necessarily low IQ, though some IQ researchers think
that their IQ's are quite low; there has been only one study, done in
1910. Richard Lynn, a racist but generally a good researcher, feels
that the Pygmy IQ may be lower even than the African Black average
of 67.

Although Pygmy heads are small, their heads are about as big as ours.
Nevertheless, the relationship between head size and IQ is weak.
Vietnamese have some of the smallest heads on Earth, and their IQ is
99.5.
Pygmies have the widest noses in the world. A small nose is only
useful in cold weather. With a small nose, the air inhaled has time to
heat up before it reaches the lungs. Air is already warm in the
rainforest, so there is no need to heat it up with a nose filter, so a
wider nose is better. The wide noses of other Africans may have a
similar evolutionary explanation.

Racists, particularly White and Northeast Asian racists, like to attack

people for being short. There are short people everywhere there are
tropical forests. Examples are the peoples of southern India,
Indonesia, the Philippines, and Central American and Amazonian
Indians. But the Pygmies are the smallest of all.