Looking at Genes to Explain an Origin Myth
DR. Aman B. Pulungan posed for the camera, flanked by four Rampasasa guardians. A Medan native, Aman was noticeably taller. He stood a full head above the Rampasasa men.
"They are pygmies; people of short stature," Aman explained when Tempo met him at his office around the end of last January. The average height of an adult pygmy is 150 centimeters or less, according to expert paleoanthropologist and physical anthropologist from Gadjah Mada University Teuku Jacob.
April 7, 2015
DR. Aman B. Pulungan posed for the camera, flanked by four Rampasasa guardians. A Medan native, Aman was noticeably taller. He stood a full head above the Rampasasa men.
"They are pygmies; people of short stature," Aman explained when Tempo met him at his office around the end of last January. The average height of an adult pygmy is 150 centimeters or less, according to expert paleoanthropologist and physical anthropologist from Gadjah Mada Universi
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