Morphmet people --
I want to concur with Jacqueline Silviria and with Chris Klingenberg about
the difficulties of using morphometric analyses to infer phylogenies. Just
to "violently agree": This is a more general problem with quantitative
characters of any kind. I often get asked how to use
Dear Jacqueline
You say that you “agree it was the nail in the coffin for the coding of X, Y,
and Z coordinates as independent characters”. Actually, the simulations in the
paper by Varón-González et al. are based on lineages/taxa evolving in
multidimensional spaces without specifying anything
Good morning,
These were the first articles that came to mind:
Simons, E. A., Frost, S. R., & Singleton, M. (2018). Ontogeny and phylogeny of
the cercopithecine cranium: A geometric morphometric approach to comparing
shape change trajectories. Journal of Human Evolution, 124, 40-51.
This paper looks at ontogenetic trajectories and their convergence. Some
discussion of phylogenetic shifts are discussed at the end:
Adams, D.C. and A. Nistri. 2010. Ontogenetic convergence and evolution of foot
morphology in European cave salamanders (Family: Plethodontidae). BMC
Hi Andrea,
maybe:
Piras, P., Colangelo P., Adams D.C., Buscalioni A., Cubo J., Kotsakis T.,
Meloro C. & Raia P. (2010) - The Gavialis-Tomistoma debate: the
contribution of skull ontogenetic allometry and growth trajectories to the
study of crocodylian relationships. Evolution and Development, 12:
Dear All,
I was looking for refs on the good or bad correspondence between
divergence in ontogenetic trajectories (including allometry and even
static allometry when present) and phylogenetic hierarchy. A simple
question could be something like whether in a lineage we find smaller
angles
