Hello, I have a dataset of 29 skulls in an ontogenetic series from small juvenilles to large adults. As expected, there are drastic shape changes across the entire skull through ontogeny, but what I'd like to do is compare relative shape change between different skull elements within the dataset, eg maxilla vs. premaxilla.
I am using the same size measurement for each specimen (log centroid size of whole skull). The comparison will be between either the predicted shape or CAC values of each element and the specimens' log centroid size. Is this as simple as comparing the slope of the allometric trajectories of each element or is it not possible to meaningfully compare non-homologous elements in this way? I hope this explanation makes sense! Thanks in advance, Andy -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
