Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians formatIsbn:Softcover 9783642263705 Speech Made at the Annual 9783642434266 Speech Made at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 3 the importance of being nonlinear is nowadays more and more accepted not only by the scientific community but also globally Morphometrics is concerned with the study of variations and change in the form (size and shape) of organisms or objects adding a quantitative element to descriptions and thereby facilitating the comparison of different objects and organisms This volume provides an introduction to morphometrics in a clear and simple way without recourse to complex mathematics and statistics