The foundations of geometric morphometrics were worked out about 30 years ago and have
continually been refined and extended. What has remained as a central thrust and source of …

Approximately two decades after the first pioneering analyses, the study of shape asymmetry
with the methods of geometric morphometrics has matured and is a burgeoning field. New …

Two fossilized human crania (Apidima 1 and Apidima 2) from Apidima Cave, southern
Greece, were discovered in the late 1970s but have remained enigmatic owing to their …

Large‐scale digitization projects such as# ScanAllFishes and oVert are generating high‐
resolution microCT scans of vertebrates by the thousands. Data from these projects are …

Increasingly, data on shape are analysed in combination with molecular genetic or
ecological information, so that tools for geometric morphometric analysis are required …

Social media has quickly risen to prominence as a news source, yet lingering doubts remain
about its ability to spread rumor and misinformation. Systematically studying this …

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of this introduction to modern statistical methods
for shape analysis Shape analysis is an important tool in the many disciplines where objects …

The analysis of shape is a fundamental part of much biological research. As the field of
statistics developed, so have the sophistication of the analysis of these types of data. This …

Geometric morphometrics is the statistical analysis of form based on Cartesian landmark
coordinates. After separating shape from overall size, position, and orientation of the …

Philipp M a,∗, Philipp G b, Sonja W c, d, Katrin S c aDepartment of Theoretical Biology,
University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria bDepartment of Human …