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• Maximum parsimony assumes that the treethat requires the fewest evolutionary events(appearances of shared derived characters) isthe most likely• The principle of maximum likelihood statesthat, given certain rules about how DNAchanges over time, a tree can be found thatreflects the most likely sequence ofevolutionary eventsCopyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings

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