Title: Morphometrics for nonmorphometricians
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.
Subjects: Morphology, Mathematics, Case studies, Statistical methods, Morphometrie, Paleontology, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Applications of Mathematics, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Earth sciences, Computer vision, Geography, Morphology (Animals)