Classifying Organisms and Artefacts By Their Shapes

aDepartment of Mathematics, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK; bSchool of Humanities, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand; cSchool of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030, USA; dClassical Art Research Centre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3LU, UK; eSchool of Science & Technology, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, B1P 6L2, Canada; fDepartment of Biological Sciences University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada; gDepartment of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK; hDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK; iSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand; jTe Pūnaha Matatini, New Zealand; lSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6012, New Zealand