 Maclaurin and Sternly suggest that one way to operationalize such variation is through the notion of a morphospace (Maclaurin &amp; Sterelny 2008: Section 4.4). Suppose we have a \(n\)-dimensional hyperspace where each dimension \(i\) is a variable concerning the \(i\)th phenotype. Thus, a point in the space represents a specific organism and their phenotype trait. Associated with any given species would be a hypervolume representing the phenotypic variation of that species. Though there are not many worked out hyperspaces of this sort, a famous one is paleontologist David Raup’s analysis of the coiling patterns in mollusks that includes variables for whorl expansion rate, uncoiling rate, translation of the generating curve, and shape of the growing edge (Raup 1966).