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Since 1917, when Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson published his celebrated book on growth and form, broader developments of morphometrics, theory and practice, have been brought into play.
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Elewa, A.M.T. (2004). Introduction. In: Elewa, A.M.T. (eds) Morphometrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08865-4_1
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