The Morphometric Synthesis: A Brief Intellectual History

  • Fred L. Bookstein
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Biomathematics book series (LNBM, volume 100)

Abstract

For most of the twentieth century, techniques for the biometric analysis of organic form fell into one of two incompatible styles. In the first, more indigenous style, a direct extension of techniques introduced into statistics by Galton, Pearson, and their heirs, conventional multivariate techniques were applied to a diverse roster of measures of single forms. The only algebraic structures involved were those of multivariate statistics, limited mainly to covariance matrices; no aspect of the geometric organization of the measures, or their biological rationale, was reflected in the method. Analyses of this mode led at best to path diagrams, not to sketches of typical organisms expressing the developmental or functional import of the coefficients computed.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Fred L. Bookstein
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  1. 1.Center for Human Growth & DevelopmentUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborUSA

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