학술논문
Character Individuation in Phylogenetic Inference....
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Article
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*PHYLOGENY
*INFERENCE (Logic)
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0031-8248
Abstract
Discusses character individuation in phylogenetic inference. Significance of character individuation because biological systematics relies on a parsimony principle to determine phylogeny and classify taxa; Parsimony principle interpreted to favor the phylogenetic hypothesis that requires the fewest changes in characters.