“…Catch‐up growth is well documented (e.g., Desmond & Casale, 2017; Lampl et al, 1978; Prader et al, 1963; Wall, 1991), although a delay in size attainment can still be expected because the nutritional demand for normal growth to resume is much greater than at a baseline (Hansen et al, 1971). In skeletal age estimation, canalization manifests as a decrease in accuracy as age increases for dental age estimation (AlQahtani et al, 2014; Santana et al, 2017) and age estimation from long bone diaphyseal length (Cardoso et al, 2014; Stull et al, 2014; Stull et al, 2021), as well as the overall broad similarity in the timing of epiphyseal union across different populations (Cardoso, 2008; Crowder & Austin, 2005; Lenover & Šešelj, 2019).…”