Morphometrics: Introduction to the Analysis of Shape

Key Points: •Morphometrics is the quantitative study of form. There are many available morphometrics to study form and its change with ontogeny, evolution, taphonomy, etc. •Principal Components Analysis (and its close cousing Principal Coordinates Analysis) are the real workhorse methods in morphometrics, summarizing multiple variables at once. •Morphospaces are the expression of quantified shape into graphical form. There are both theoretical (mathematical) morphospaces, determin