Dear colleagues, Several weeks ago I received excellent advice from many distinguished members of the morphmet community on methods to deal with asymmetry in evolutionary studies of shape variation. As personal communications, some of you explained why it is not recommended to work with only half of the structure being analyzed (for this particular case being the mammal skull), instead of recurring to methods of reflection and averaging. In this context, I find myself obligued to turn to you again for advice on published references discussing the drawbacks of using landmark configurations from half of the skull, instead of other more appropiate methods (e. g. "reflected relabelling" of Mardia, Bookstein and Moreton, 2000). I am currently doing my Ph. D. thesis research in Ecuador, where access to bibliographical databases is very limited and precludes efficient searches for literature, perhaps you could help me with mentions to some useful papers on this aspect. Thanks for all your help.
Pablo Pablo Jarrin Department of Biology Boston University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
