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This book examines a number of recent approaches currently in use to numerically characterize the biological form. It presents a unique overview of these methods, starting with a review of measurement set in a historical framework.
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Theoretical background: introduction to morphometrics; an introduction to research methods; a history of scientific measurement; toward quantification in biology; complexity, systems and models; a formal model of form. Morphometric techniques: multivariate morphometrics; co-ordinate morphometrics; boundary morphometrics; structural morphometrics.
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