Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1919 — Inherited Stature. [ARTICLE]

Inherited Stature.

It is indicated by research that while short parents tend on the Average to have short children, they may and frequently do transmit characteristics which Tack the shortening element and have tall children. On the other hand, children of tall parents are always tall.* The offspring of two very short or short parents are more variable in stature than the offspring of two very tall or tali'parents. Also, whereas the offspring of two very short -Or short parents tend, on the average, to be less short than the parents, the offspring of very tall or tall parents do not tend to be less tall. Not only is stature as a whole inherited. but also, and even more clearly, each segment of stature, such as neck, of torso, thigh Mind foreleg. And the inheritance of the length of these segments follows the same law as does the length of stature as a whole.