MORPHOMETRY (Geometric) 2)
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A discipline which quantifies the geometric similarities and dissimilarities among the forms of living beings.
The original idea belongs to W. d'ARCY THOMPSON (1916).
It was based on the study of topologic deformations, through the comparison of a number of homologous points taken on two objects (D. BRUNO & B. LAURIN, 1997).
It is now used in paleontology as a tool to measure the morphologic distance between species which are supposed to belong to a specific evolutive line.
It could however probably be applied to any evolutive series of objects, even man-made artifacts.
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- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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