Invariance and Meaningfulness in Phenotype spaces

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 335-351

  Huttegger, Simon M ^a   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Affine space; Disparity; Invariance; Morphometrics; Morphospace; Numerical taxonomy; Phenotype space; Phenotypic distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051706378     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9123-x     Document Type: Article

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