Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists: A Primer, Third Edition explores how these geometric methods allow for the study of biological shape by incorporating the geometry of organisms throughout data analyses. Novel content on phylogenetic comparative methods, evolutionary morphology, analyses of disparity, genetics of shape, and simulating shape data is included. This edition delivers step-by-step guidance on how to effectively utilize updated analytical software while also providing guidance on important methodologies that remain relevant to the field to ensure clear and effective instruction to audiences new to this branch of data analysis.
It succeeds the second edition as the primary resource for teaching modern geometric methods of shape analysis to students, researchers, and practicing scientists in the field of organismal biology. Users will find it to be an immensely valuable introduction for students and practicing biologists interested in learning applications of multivariate statistics and matrix algebra to organismal biology.
1. Introduction
Part I: Basics of Shape Data
2. Landmarks
3. Simple Size and Shape Variables: Shape Coordinates
4. Theory of Shape
5. The Thin-Plate Spline: Visualizing Shape Change as a Deformation
Part II: Analyzing Shape Variables
6. Ordination Methods
7. Partial Least Squares
8. Statistics
9. General Linear Models
10. Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Part III: Applications
11. Ecological Morphology
12. Evolutionary Morphology
13. Allometry
14. Variational Properties and their Evolutionary Outcomes
15. Systematics
16. Temporal, Geographic and Evolutionary Analyses of Disparity
17. Genetics of Shape Chapter 18: Simulating Shape Data
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