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If we are to construe morphometrics as the measurement of shapes, we need to know what shapes are and how we get them into position to be worked on by our tools. Our appreciation of shapes is conditioned by properties of the Euclidean space in which we live with them and by their mode of biological production.
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Bookstein, F.L. (1978). Shapes and Measures of Shape. In: The Measurement of Biological Shape and Shape Change. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93093-5_2
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