Dear Chris, Norm, Alannah, Thank you for your comments and discussion on this term! And for engaging in a fun and different topic for this forum.
It is indeed the etymology and usage I find most fascinating. I have noticed through my years of training in morphometrics (as I would call it) that colleagues in Brazil and Spanish speaking countries say morphometry usually and I'd not heard this before - at least I don't remember hearing it said in Britain. I began to wonder why, but had not found the answer. I'm glad I'm not the only one interested in this - thanks Mauro! Have a lovely weekend all! Best wishes, Em On Thursday, 8 September 2016, Chris Klingenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Emma > > They are synonyms, with the same meaning. Incidentally, that is the same > as for "biometry" and "biometrics". > > I think "morphometry" may be the older of the two (the Oxford English > Dictiionary has a first occurrence in 1857, although it is not clear > whether the meaning is the same, versus 1960 for "morphometrics"), and is > the more traditional-sounding one. > During much of the 20th century, words ending in "-ics" had the aura of > coolness about them (perhaps from physics envy) as it now applies to those > ending in "-omics". > > Also, I have a feeling (which may be wrong) that there may be a geographic > flavour to the two words. In my impression, the word "morphometry" is > perhaps more widespread in Britain (plus perhaps the Commonwealth), whereas > folks in North America seems to use "morphometrics" pretty much all the > time. > Furthermore, "morphometry" may come more naturally to writers who > translate from another language (French "morphométrie", German > "Morphometrie" etc.). > > There would be room for linguistic research here.... > > Best wishes, > Chris > > > On 08/09/2016 06:01, Emma Sherratt wrote: > >> Dear Morphmet-hive mind, >> >> I've been curious for some time about the terms "morphometry" and >> "morphometrics" and whether they are in fact interchangeable or quite >> distinct. Also, is it related to the difference between phylogeny and >> phylogenetics? >> >> Regards, >> >> Emma >> >> >> -- >> MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MORPHMET" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>. >> > > -- > *********************************** > Christian Peter Klingenberg > School of Biological Sciences > University of Manchester > Michael Smith Building > Oxford Road > Manchester M13 9PT > United Kingdom > > Web site: http://www.flywings.org.uk > E-mail: [email protected] > Phone: +44 161 2753899 > Skype: chris_klingenberg > *********************************** > > -- > MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MORPHMET" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Emma Sherratt, PhD. Postdoctoral Researcher in the Keogh Lab <http://biology-assets.anu.edu.au/hosted_sites/Scott/> Division of Evolution, Ecology & Genetics Research School of Biology 116 Daley Road The Australian National University Acton, ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA email: [email protected] office tel: +61 2612 53029 mob: +61 4234 19966 Twitter: @DrEmSherratt <https://twitter.com/DrEmSherratt> co-author of geomorph R package: Software website <http://geomorphr.github.io/geomorph/> | CRAN website <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/geomorph/> | googlegroups <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/geomorph-r-package> Caecilians are legless amphibians... * __ (\ .-. .-. /_") \\_//^\\_//^\\_// `"` `"` `"`* learn more about them here: www.emmasherratt.com/caecilians -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
