Relevant excerpt: “He was admitted to a hospital on 3 March 2010 in Rome, Italy after complaining of chest pains. He had been filming The Record Show.[12] He died on the 13 March 2010 of heart complications.[13] The Guinness World Records editor-in-chief, Craig Glenday, said that he was ‘an inspiration to anyone considered different or unusual’.[12]“

Could it be that the smallest among us, are atavistic, expressing traits that our ancestors once had, perhaps for many millions of years? The assumption that our ancestors were ever knuckle-walkers has already been dispelled (see the bipedal Ardipithecus ramidus, the Laetoli footprints, and the very different physiology underlying the knuckle-walking of chimpanzees and gorillas, which points to knuckle-walking having evolved twice.)

Numerous cultures, from around the world, have long told of “little people,” and some spoke of of larger humankind having descended from small bipeds. Now, with the knuckle-walking, chimp-like, assumptions out of the way, it looks like the evidence is actually pointing in the direction, of vindicating these ancient legends.

There are other things this reminds me of, including the Mayan “Alux” statues, and the “Bes” statue (and written accounts) at Hathor’s Temple, Dendara Complex, Egypt. Also the origins of the word, “pygmy”: Greek writings of little people, approximately as tall as a larger human’s forearm is, long. (Their name in Greek was Pygmaioi, from pygmê, the length of the forearm.) Not the same thing as the roughly 4-foot-tall people we have, more recently, taken to calling “pygmies.”

The more one digs into the evidence, in this area, the more intriguing and compelling it becomes.

This was written about in a Reader’s Digest Asso. publication “Mysteries of the Unexplained” 1982