id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_e7ab7hrowrar5pxir2vjsbdf2y Arhat Abzhanov The old and new faces of morphology: the legacy of D'Arcy Thompson's 'theory of transformations' and 'laws of growth' 2017 14 .pdf application/pdf 12721 1206 57 The old and new faces of morphology: the legacy of D'Arcy Thompson's 'theory of transformations' and 'laws of growth' in producing morphological variation, Thompson's 'laws of growth' transformations, Laws of growth, Evolution, Morphology, Form comes from Thompson's attempts to relate biological shapes (Right) Collapse of all group shapes onto a common shape via a composition of shear and scaling transformations suggesting a two-tier morphological variation observed in the beak shapes of Darwin's finches by reducing the morphological variation in the beaks of Darwin's finches suggests shapes in Tholospiza (Darwin's finches on Galápagos and endemic Caribbean relatives, marked with an asterisk) and Hawaiian honeycreepers as compared with (B) Highly modular multigenic beak developmental programs are found in Darwin's finches and close Tholospiza relatives but not in the developmental shape variation, explaining morphological origin of their morphological diversity, beak shapes of Hawaiian Scaling and shear transformations capture beak shape variation in Darwin's ./cache/work_e7ab7hrowrar5pxir2vjsbdf2y.pdf ./txt/work_e7ab7hrowrar5pxir2vjsbdf2y.txt