A brief review of shape, form, and allometry in geometric morphometrics, with applications to human facial morphology

Hystrix

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Gunz, Philipp ^b   Windhager, Sonja ^a,c   Schaefer, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allometry; Centroid size; Face shape; Form space; Procrustes; Shape space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879137973     PISSN: 03941914     EISSN: 18255272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4404/hystrix-24.1-6369     Document Type: Article

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