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Landmarks, Localization, and the Use of Morphometrics in Phylogenetic Analysis

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Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology ((TGBI,volume 19))

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Morphometries is the quantitative study of patterns of covariance with shape (Bookstein 1991). Since many morphological attributes of biological form are obviously reflections of evolutionary processes (e.g., Darwin 1859; Simpson 1944; Mayr 1963), and since assessments of patterns of morphological variation have been used traditionally to infer phylogenetic relations (e.g., Hennig 1966; Eldredge and Cracraft 1980; Mayr and Ashlock 1991) it would seem be natural to assume that morphometric analyses would play a large role in phylogenetic studies. This has not, however, been the case.

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    Norman MacLeod

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  1. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

    Jonathan M. Adrain

  2. Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Gregory D. Edgecombe

  3. University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

    Bruce S. Lieberman

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MacLeod, N. (2001). Landmarks, Localization, and the Use of Morphometrics in Phylogenetic Analysis. In: Adrain, J.M., Edgecombe, G.D., Lieberman, B.S. (eds) Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form. Topics in Geobiology, vol 19. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0571-6_6

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