Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians

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.