Ebook: Morphometrics for nonmorphometricians
- Genre: Geology
- Tags: Paleontology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Statistics for Engineering Physics Computer Science Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Applications of Mathematics, Computer Imaging Vision Pattern Recognition and Graphics
- Series: Lecture notes in earth sciences 124
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- City: Berlin; New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
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.