"These are global problems, you need global giants, not the pygmies I hear about, " he said.

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He said "everybody" outside the UK believed Gordon Brown had "turned this global economy round" and dismissed his opposition rivals as "pygmies".

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Nine ethnic groups - the Mbum, Sara, Banda, Gbaya, Bantu, Pygmies, Oubanguiens, Ngbandi, Nzakara Zande - inhabit this country of 2.3 million people.

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Alan, like the rest of us, knew of pygmies in Africa.

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Florence's brain turns out to be similar in its pattern of lobes to that of Homo erectus, a species already known from Indonesia, and quite unlike that of Homo sapiens including the smaller than average brains of central-African pygmies.

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