Size and shape: A comment on semantics

Systematic Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 173-180

  Bookstein, Fred L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84960577269     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/38.2.173     Document Type: Article

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