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Five years since Springer published my first book on morphometrics (Elewa 2004), this short interval has shown rapid evolution in the subject.
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Elewa, A.M. (2010). Why Morphometrics?. In: Elewa, A. (eds) Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6_1
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