Biometric and Symmetry Issues in Animal and Human Morphology
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Life Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 8754

Special Issue Editors
Special Issue Information
Morphology—the science of organismal form—is amongst the oldest scientific branches that laid the theoretical foundations to all of comparative biology. However, the rapid development of molecular genetic methodologies in the last century shifted the focus of the scientific community predominantly toward molecular studies and away from living forms. We believe that balanced evolutionary explanations should integrate at all levels of biological organization, including considering morphology as a causal factor in its own right, and not just the result of other systems. Organismal form is a significant factor that interacts with the environment, and other organisms within it, which bestows adaptive roles and survival values. Recently, the role of symmetry as a fitness indicator has received a great deal of attention, and the growing development of multivariate statistics and computational and visualization techniques offer new avenues into the study of human and nonhuman animal forms. Such shifts bring about opportunities in technical and metholodogical innovations, and important theoretical and conceptual reflections. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to promote methodological approaches and theoretical accounts focusing on symmetry and biometric issues in animal and human morphology. The Special Issue welcomes original research papers, reviews, and conceptual and theoretical essays. Technical notes, short communications, and comments will also be given attention.
Dr. Karel Kleisner
Dr. Alex Jones
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- shape variation
- laterality
- asymmetry
- allometry
- homology
- morphospaces
- organism
- living form
- morphological disparity
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