Dear Emma
They are synonyms, with the same meaning. Incidentally, that is the same
as for "biometry" and "biometrics".
I think "morphometry" may be the older of the two (the Oxford English
Dictiionary has a first occurrence in 1857, although it is not clear
whether the meaning is the same, versus 1960 for "morphometrics"), and
is the more traditional-sounding one.
During much of the 20th century, words ending in "-ics" had the aura of
coolness about them (perhaps from physics envy) as it now applies to
those ending in "-omics".
Also, I have a feeling (which may be wrong) that there may be a
geographic flavour to the two words. In my impression, the word
"morphometry" is perhaps more widespread in Britain (plus perhaps the
Commonwealth), whereas folks in North America seems to use
"morphometrics" pretty much all the time.
Furthermore, "morphometry" may come more naturally to writers who
translate from another language (French "morphométrie", German
"Morphometrie" etc.).
There would be room for linguistic research here....
Best wishes,
Chris
On 08/09/2016 06:01, Emma Sherratt wrote:
Dear Morphmet-hive mind,
I've been curious for some time about the terms "morphometry" and
"morphometrics" and whether they are in fact interchangeable or quite
distinct. Also, is it related to the difference between phylogeny and
phylogenetics?
Regards,
Emma
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