Most of the time, parsimony and model-based approaches give the same result

What is it about?

This paper is a meta-analysis of articles describing phylogenetic analyses of various taxa, that shows that almost all the time, the results of "maximum parsimony" are the same as those from "maximum likelihood" or Bayesian analyses of the same data set.

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Why is it important?

The paper refutes the common claim that model-based approaches to phylogenetic inference outperform analyses based on cladistic parsimony.