The miserable remnants of ancient nonsocial Pygmies illustrate the resilience of primitive social conditions against contemporary cultural society. [1]
The Pygmies and other backward groups today have no marriage institution due to simple mating customs followed by primitive races, reflecting early races' lack of regulation of relations of the sexes and absence of prostitution. [2] The African Pygmies are at a primitive stage of religious evolution, with no religious reactions as a class. [3]