And so I'm hoping, can you walk us through what 3D geometric morphometrics actually is and how do you use it to study something like trabecular bone?

Yeah, absolutely.

So geometric morphometrics is the statistical analysis of shape.

And so it's really any kind of analysis that we use to study different shapes.

And so in this case, the shapes of different bones.

And what I mean by shape is that it's the mathematical definition of it is what we use when we talk about this, which is all information outside of size, location, and orientation.

And so we remove size.

you do this whole bone analysis rather than just looking at maybe those parts that you think are different between species or individuals or something like that.