Signs of pygmy Mystery Cache

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Makuta Icarax: #This cache has been archived by a Swedish reviewer#

Hej Pettssons!

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Jag ber dig plocka in ev. rester av din cache så att de inte ligger kvar och skräpar ner.

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Makuta Icarax, reviewer

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Hidden : 2/27/2013
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

At the starting coordinates you will not find the cache, these coordinates are fake and will show you to a place where short people have been staying during daytime for long time. But today they are not present at this place any more…

A pygmy is a member of an ethnic group whose average height is unusually short; anthropologists define pygmy as a member of any group where adult men are on average less than 150 cm (59 inches) tall. A member of a slightly taller group is termed "pygmoid". The term is best associated with peoples of Central Africa, such as the Aka, Efé and Mbuti. There are also pygmies in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Andaman Islands Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Brazil, including some Negritos of Southeast Asia.

The term "pygmy" is sometimes considered pejorative. However, there is no single term to replace it. Many prefer to be identified by their ethnicity, such as the Aka (Mbenga), Baka, Mbuti, and Twa. The term Bayaka, the plural form of the Aka/Yaka, is sometimes used in the Central African Republic to refer to all local pygmies. Likewise, the Kongo word Bambenga is used in Congo.

Various theories have been proposed to explain the short stature of pygmies. Some studies suggest that it could be related to adaptation to low ultraviolet light levels in rainforests. This might mean that relatively little vitamin D can be made in human skin, thereby limiting calcium uptake from the diet for bone growth and maintenance, and leading to the evolution of the small skeletal size.

Other explanations include lack of food in the rainforest environment, low calcium levels in the soil, the need to move through dense jungle, adaptation to heat and humidity, and most recently, as an association with rapid reproductive maturation under conditions of early mortality. Other evidence points towards unusually low levels of expression of the genes encoding the growth hormone receptor and growth hormone compared to the related tribal groups, associated with low serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 and short stature.

 
The cache can be found with the following as guidance:
Method and device for detecting and correcting any error in a sequence of numbers (May 18)
Control mechanism for power plants (Nov 5)

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