morphometrics

British  

/ ˌmɔːfəʊˈmɛtriks, ˌmɔːfəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk /

noun

1. a technique of taxonomic analysis using measurements of the form of organisms

2. the evolutionary development of form in an organism or part of an organism

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Other Word Forms

• morphogenetic adjective
• morphometric adjective

Example Sentences

They then quantified their shape using geometric morphometrics and paired this with data they collected in the field on how these snakes lived and what they ate to explore the relationship between skull shape and ecology.

From Science Daily

The researchers used a technique called geometric morphometrics, identifying landmarks on the bone, to capture the shape of the Haast’s eagle’s skull, beak and talons in three dimensions.

From New York Times

He and Allowen Evin, now with the National Center for Scientific Research in Montpellier, France, also took many photographs of each jaw and skull to do geometric morphometrics.

From New York Times

‘Mystery big cats’ in the Peruvian Amazon: morphometrics solve a cryptozoological mystery.

From Scientific American

Therein, they argue that the Brindled wildebeest is actually a complex containing four species that can be reliably distinguished on the basis of cranial morphometrics.

From Scientific American