Parsimony
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<dinofyi-glossary slug="parsimony"></dinofyi-glossary>The principle of preferring the evolutionary tree that requires the fewest evolutionary changes to explain observed character distributions. Most cladistic analyses of dinosaurs use parsimony as an optimality criterion.
Category: Modern Paleontology