The Measurement of Biological Shape and Shape Change

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• One. Introduction: On the Absence of Geometry from Morphometrics.
• First Part. The Measurement of Biological Shape.
• Two. Shapes and Measures of Shape.
• Three. Critique of an Applied Field: Conventional Cephalometrics.
• Four. New Statistical Methods for Shape.
• Second Part. The Measurement of Shape Change Using Biorthogonal Grids.
• Five. The Study of Shape Transformation after D’Arcy Thompson.
• Six. The Method of Biorthogonal Grids.
• Seven. Examples of Biorthogonal Analysis.
• Eight. Future Directions for Transformation Analysis.
• Nine. Envoi.
• Literature Cited.