Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data

O'Reilly, Joseph E.; Puttick, Mark N.; Parry, Luke; Tanner, Alastair R.; Tarver, James E.; Fleming, James; Pisani, Davide; Donoghue, Philip C. J.

doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0081

Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data

Different analytical methods can yield competing interpretations of evolutionary history and, currently, there is no definitive method for phylogenetic reconstruction using morphological data. Parsimony has been the primary method for analysing morphological data, but there has been a resurgence …