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Notes
1 I think this is the case not just for phylogenetic inference, but for any scientific endeavor: every facet of science is laden with parsimony assumptions about natural laws, the uniformity of nature, the future resembling the past, and other beliefs that the world operates in a manner that is consistent with our experience.