The Concept of Morphospaces in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology: Mathematics and Metaphors

Biological Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-67

  Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Huttegger, Simon M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive landscapes; affine space; developmental hourglass; morphometrics; phenetic space; sequence space; shape space; skeleton space; theoretical morphology; topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85131819337     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2009.4.1.54     Document Type: Article

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