A LIKELIHOOD JUSTIFICATION OF PARSIMONY
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- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Cladistics
- Vol. 1 (3) , 209-233
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.1985.tb00424.x
Abstract
Abstract—A connection is established between maximally parsimonious cladograms and trees of highest likelihood. The assumptions needed to prove this are derivable from the structure of evolutionary theory and are independent of the frequency of homoplasy. The bearing of this justification on alternative methods of phylogenetic inference and on Felsenstein's (1978) proof that parsimony and other phylogenetic methods can be statistically inconsistent is discussed.Keywords
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