“…Prior studies have documented the ubiquity of child stunting in remote native Amazonian societies (Benefice, Monroy, Jiménez, & López, ; Blackwell, Pryor, Pozo, Tiwia, & Sugiyama, ; Cobayashi et al, ; Godoy, Reyes‐García, Byron, Leonard, & Vadez, ; Pedraza, Sales, de Queiroz, & Al, ; Roche, Creed‐Kanashiro, Tuesta, & Kuhnlein, ). Our results suggested that some of these remote societies might not be able to offer their children enough protection to foster normal growth, leaving open the question of how best to redress faltering and avoid losses in the human capital of these children.…”