Parsimony Parsimony: a derogatory term from the 1930s and 1940s To describe someone who was especially careful with Spending money Biologically: Attach preference to an evolutionary pathway That minimizes the number of mutational events since (1)Mutations are rare events, and (2) The more unlikely events a model postulates, the less likely the model is to be true Parsimony: a character-based method, NoT a distance-based methodParsimony Parsimony: a derogatory term from the 1930s and 1940s To describe someone who was especially careful with Spending money. Biologically: Attach preference to an evolutionary pathway That minimizes the number of mutational events since (1) Mutations are rare events, and (2) The more unlikely events a model postulates, the less l likely the model is to be true. Parsimony: a character-based method, NOT a distance-based method