Morphometrics has undergone a revolutionary transformation in the past two decades as new methods have been developed to address shortcomings in the traditional multivirate analysis of linear distances, angles, and indices. While there is much active research in the field, the new approaches to shape analysis are already making significant and ever-increasing contributions to biological research, including physical anthropology. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology highlights the basic machinery of the most important methods, while introducing novel extensions to these methods and illustrating how they provide enhanced results compared to more traditional approaches. Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology provides a comprehensive sampling of the applications of modern, sophisticated methods of shape analysis in anthropology, and serves as a starting point for the exploration of these practices by students and researchers who might otherwise lack the local expertise or training to get started. This text is an important resource for the general morphometric community that includes ecologists, evolutionary biologists, systematists, and medical researchers.

Table of contents (6 chapters)
Modern Morphometrics
Dennis E. Slice
Pages 1-45
After Landmarks
Fred L. Bookstein
Pages 49-71
Semilandmarks in Three Dimensions
Philipp Gunz, Philipp Mitteroecker, Fred L. Bookstein
Pages 73-98
Fourier Descriptors, Procrustes Superimposition, and Data Dimensionality: An Example of Cranial Shape Analysis in Modern Human Populations
Michel Baylac, Martin Frie
Pages 145-165
The Morphological Integration of the Hominoid Skull: A Partial Least Squares and PC Analysis with Implications for European Middle Pleistocene Mandibular Variation
Markus Bastir, Antonio Rosas, H. David Sheets
Pages 265-284
A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Late Pleistocene Human Metacarpal 1 Base Shape
Wesley Allan Niewoehner