Measurement, Explanation, and Biology: Lessons From a Long Century

Biological Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-20

  Bookstein, Fred L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

biometrics; corpus callosum; fetal alcohol damage; historicity in biology; normal anatomical variation; plasticity; quantification; random walk; regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049445656     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2009.4.1.6     Document Type: Article

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