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3.2 Determining evolutionary relationships  (Page 11/18)

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    Describe maximum parsimony.

    Maximum parsimony hypothesizes that events occurred in the simplest, most obvious way, and the pathway of evolution probably includes the fewest major events that coincide with the evidence at hand.

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