Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Slice, Dennis E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.

Morphometrics has undergone a revolutionary transformation in the past two decades as new methods have been developed to address shortcomings in the traditional multivirate analysis of linear distances, angles, and indices. While there is much active research in the field, the new approaches to shap...