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 shape analysis are already making significant and ever-increasing contributions to biological research, including physical anthropology. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology highlights the basic machinery of the most important methods, while introducing novel extensions to these methods and illustrating how they provide enhanced results compared to more traditional approaches. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology provides a comprehensive sampling of the applications of modern, sophisticated methods of shape analysis in anthropology, and serves as a starting point for the exploration of these practices by students and researchers who might otherwise lack the local expertise or training to get started. This text is an important resource for the general morphometric community that includes ecologists, evolutionary biologists, systematists, and medical researchers.
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From the reviews: "The chapters in Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology are from a symposium at the 2002 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. … It is a very valuable exposition of the strengths and bioanthropological applications of geometric morphometrics (GM). … The book is highly recommended … ." (Robert S. Corruccini, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 27 (2), April, 2006)
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The quantification of human proportions has a long history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
singular warps, cranial shape variation, cranial base height, drift rat, first relative warps, frontal cranial profiles, modern morphometric methods, total shape variance, relative gape, nuisance variability, aneuploid mice, log centroid size, mandibular sample, resampled curves, geometric morphometry, bilateral landmarks, scapular shape, supraorbital morphology, principal coordinate ordinations, procrustes superimposition, masticatory complex, gorilla subspecies, morphomctric analysis, posterior facial height, geometric morphometric analysis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Stony Brook, Meadows Jantz, United States, Old World, Academic Press, Dennis Slice, Ness York, Potato Head, University of Vienna, Peabody Museum, University of Michigan, Bad River, Missouri River, Morphological Integration of the Hominoid Skull, Statistical Shape Analysis, Alternative Approach, Ann Arbor, Assessment of the Hominoid Supraorbital Region, Forensic Data Bank, James Rohlf, John Wiley, Michelle Singleton, Cheyenne River, Decade of Birth Figure New!
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singular warps, cranial shape variation, cranial base height, drift rat, first relative warps, frontal cranial profiles, modern morphometric methods, total shape variance, relative gape, nuisance variability, aneuploid mice, log centroid size, mandibular sample, resampled curves, geometric morphometry, bilateral landmarks, scapular shape, supraorbital morphology, principal coordinate ordinations, procrustes superimposition, masticatory complex, gorilla subspecies, morphomctric analysis, posterior facial height, geometric morphometric analysis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Stony Brook, Meadows Jantz, United States, Old World, Academic Press, Dennis Slice, Ness York, Potato Head, University of Vienna, Peabody Museum, University of Michigan, Bad River, Missouri River, Morphological Integration of the Hominoid Skull, Statistical Shape Analysis, Alternative Approach, Ann Arbor, Assessment of the Hominoid Supraorbital Region, Forensic Data Bank, James Rohlf, John Wiley, Michelle Singleton, Cheyenne River, Decade of Birth Figure New!
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- Statistical Shape Analysis by I. L. Dryden on 4 pages
- Advances in Morphometrics (Nato Science Series: A:) by Leslie F. Marcus on 4 pages
- An Introduction to the Bootstrap (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability) by Bradley Efron on page 208, and page 282
- Morphological Integration by Everett C. Olson on page 268, and page 283
- On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition (Dover Books on Biology) by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson on page 43, and page 318
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