Definition of "morphometrics" []

• The measurement of shape (noun)
• The study of the relationships between the form and function of organisms (noun)

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• "A morphometrics approach can capture some of that broader picture of morphology difference/sameness that the human eye sees, but incorporating morphometrics data in phylogenetic reconstruction is a somewhat hairy business."
• "I believe our own esteemed commentator Joe Felsenstein has pushed the theory on incorporating morphometrics about as far as it has gone to date…"
• "Sorry Nick, but morphometrics is similar the mathematics of body size and shape."