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Total evidencethe philosophical principle that the best hypothesis is the one derived from all the available data. In cladistics, this principle has come to be equated with the supermatrix approach (Bininda-Emonds, 2004 - glossary).
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Total evidence Reconstructing phylogeny by analysing combined data of different kinds, e.g. morphology and gene sequences. A controversial issue, because gene phylogenies may be incongruent with organismal phylogenies (cf. congruence).
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