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Morphometrics for nonmorphometricians

By Ashraf M.T. Elewa (auth.) , Ashraf M.T. Elewa (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2010
ISBN
3540958525, 9783540958529, 9783540958536, 3540958533
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4420495 bytes)
Series
Lecture notes in earth sciences 124
Edition
1
Pages
367\360
Topic
Geology
Time added
2010-06-26 00:49:36
Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Applications of MathComputer SciencePaleontology; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / HistolPattern Recognition and GraphicsPhysicsVision

Description

Morphometrics is concerned with the study of variations and change in the form (size and shape) of organisms or objects adding a quantitative element to descriptions and thereby facilitating the comparison of different objects and organisms. This volume provides an introduction to morphometrics in a clear and simple way without recourse to complex mathematics and statistics. This introduction is followed by a series of case studies describing the variety of applications of morphometrics from paleontology and evolutionary ecology to archaeological artifacts analysis. This is followed by a presentation of future applications of morphometrics and state of the art software for analyzing and comparing shape.

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