Adding the known fossil record to the Bracket Method results in feathered coelurosaurs being the most parsimonious hypothesis (one step, feathers evolving once in the Coelurosauria, versus two steps, feathers evolving independently in at least two separate branches of the Coelurosauria, Aves and whatever branch contains...
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Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor ), entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Latin, roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity"), is the principle that can ...
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Your browser version may not work well with NCBI's Web applications. More information here... ... ReviewNewer pathogenetic concepts in cholesterol gallstone formation: a unitary hypothesis. ... Pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstones: a parsimonious hypothesis.
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Therefore, the founder effect in a rapidly expanding population arising from a bottleneck provides a robust parsimonious hypothesis explaining the spread of 1278insTATC-linked TSD in AJ individuals...
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BioInfoBank Library :: Origin and spread of the 1278insTATC mutation causing Tay-Sachs disease in Ashkenazi Jews: genetic drift as a robust and parsimonious hypothesis. A population-genetic test of founder effects and implications for Ashkenazi Jewish diseases. ... Amos Frisch, Roberto Colombo, ... Mesh-terms: Alleles;
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BioInfoBank Library :: Estimating allele age. ... A corollary of this hypothesis is that genetic variants protecting against the development of diabetes are "unthrifty" and thus subject to negative selection during human evolution. METHODS: It was assessed whether age estimates of the diabetes protective PPARG Ala12...
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Similarly, although ESP appears to be a more parsimonious hypothesis, it doesn't satisfactorily explain those cases that defy normal hypotheses. In contrast, reincarnation does fulfill both conditions. Finally, the author mentions some topics for further research, which go beyond a mere demonstration of reincarnation.
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We developed the PSH, providing a parsimonious explanation for our observations and a theoretical basis for organizing our continuing work (Caccamise and Morrison 1986). The patch-sitting hypothesis.--We view large communal roosts as passive accumulations of DAC-based ... The PSH hypothesis is based on three assumption:
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for which the preference for quantitatively parsimonious hypotheses is ..... consistent with a simple and parsimonious hypothesis which explains why no ...
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This methodology assumes that the species are genealogically related and proceeds to identify the most parsimonious hypothesis concerning what that pattern of relatedness is. However, there is a prior question about phylogeny why think that the species we observe share any common ancestors?
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