Dear morphometricians,
I hope you are all doing well in these difficult times! I would like to draw your attention to some morphometrics-related papers that we published this year. Mitteroecker P, Bartsch S, Erkinger C, Grunstra NDS, Le Maître A, Bookstein FL (2020) Morphometric Variation at Different Spatial Scales: Coordination and Compensation in the Emergence of Organismal Form. Systematic Biology, early view, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa007 In this paper we introduce a new approach for studying integration and canalization of size and shape variation (partly derived from Fred's work on self-similar shape distributions). It is based on the idea that if anatomical elements vary independently, then their variation accumulates at larger scales (or for composite structures). Quantifying size or shape variation relative to its spatial scale thus allows for the identification of coordinating or compensating processes during development and evolution. Neubauer S, Gunz P, Scott NA, Hublin J-J, Mitteroecker P (2020) Evolution of brain lateralization: a shared hominid pattern of endocranial asymmetry is much more variable in humans than in great apes. Science Advances 6(7):eaax9935 In this paper we present a multivariate analysis of shape asymmetry with a slightly modified version of PCA that maximizes shape variation around the symmetric origin, not the sample mean. Mitteroecker P (2020) Morphometrics in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. In: Nuno de la Rosa L, Müller G (eds) Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Springer, Cham This is a brief review of geometric morphometrics in evolutionary developmental biology. Best wishes, Philipp https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philipp_Mitteroecker -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/d21072e3-31c2-458e-8b5f-54d94dbf1ecb%40googlegroups.com.
