This is a photo taken in Mérida, in April 2010. There's Inês with a grandmother and her granddaughter. "Tall" is not the first word that crosses one's mind when mentioning Inês - she is only 159 cm (because she was born during the fascist dictatorship in Portugal - and dictatorships in general have a powerful "shrinkage effect", but this is another story). The point here is that Inês, being short, looks tall in comparison to the Maya grandmother.
Read more here
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19214997
Varela-Silva MI,
Azcorra H,
Dickinson F,
Bogin B,
Frisancho AR (2009). Influence of maternal stature, pregnancy age, and infant birth weight on growth during childhood in Yucatan, Mexico: a test of the intergenerational effects hypothesis. American Journal of Human Biology 21(5):657-63.
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