EXTREMES OF HUMAN STATURE 
A giant and two dwarfs from a circus. Stature is made up of so many different items that 
it has been very difficult to analyze its inheritance. Mendelian writers are accustomed 
to say that cases of dwarfism in which all parts of the body are reduced proportionately 
(as in the two above) are a recessive to normal stature, but there are probably many dif- 
ferent factors involved. Hereditary differences in some of the ductless glands of the body 
are thought to be, in part at least, responsible for great extremes of stature. Photograph 
from René Bache. (Fig. 12.). 
