Recent phylogenetic analyses have turned away from maximum parsimony towards the probabilistic techniques of maximum likelihood and bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (BMCMC).

Phylogenetic analysis is pervading every field of biological study. The authors review and assess the main methods of phylogenetic analysis — including parsimony, distance, likelihood and ...

This field of research is called phylogenetics: the study of the evolutionary relationships between organisms. One approach for growing these trees is called parsimony.