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.
| ISBN: | 9783540958529 |
| Publication date: | 10th June 2010 |
| Author: | Ashraf M T Elewa |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 367 pages |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences |
| Genres: |
Palaeontology Image processing Probability and statistics Applied mathematics Zoology and animal sciences |