ABSTRACT

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................69 How We Got Here: A Whig History of Morphometrics.................................................................70 But We Have No 'Null Model'.........................................................................................................71 Equation-Free Sketch of a Miraculous Mathematical Rescue ........................................................72 A Biometric Speculation: Intrinsic Warps.......................................................................................75 Implications for the Notion of a Computed Homology..................................................................78 An Example......................................................................................................................................78 Concluding Optimistic Postscript ....................................................................................................79 Acknowledgements ..........................................................................................................................80 Notes.................................................................................................................................................80 References ........................................................................................................................................80