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Nature 141, 449-450 (12 March 1938) | doi:10.1038/141449a0;

A Jungle Tribe of Malaya

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OF the three jungle peoples of the Malay Peninsula, Jakun, Sakai and Semang, the last-named are probably the best known to the outside world. As a racial group of low stature and negroid appearance, they form a link in the chain of pygmy and pygmoid peoples extending with intermissions from West Africa to New Guinea, their nearest affinities in south-eastern Asia being the Andaman Islanders and the Aetas of the Philippines.