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FIGURE 11.16
Principal components analysis of geometric shape data, pooling the ontogenetic series of
cotton rat and house mouse.
traditional as well as geometric data have shown that species differ in shape at the outset
of development, the trajectories diverge and they may also differ in length (e.g.
Strauss and
Fuiman, 1985; McKinney, 1986; Klingenberg and Froese, 1991; Zelditch et al., 2000, 2003a;
Cardini and Tongiorgi, 2003; Bastir and Rosas, 2004; Cobb and O'Higgins, 2004;
Mitteroecker et al., 2004a, 2004b; Larson, 2005; Cardini and Thorington, 2006; Bastir et al.,
