parsimony

How To Use parsimony In A Sentence

• The principle of parsimony is a centuries-old aspect of the scientific method. Beckwith on ID
• He held none of his curacies long, either losing them from the caprice of his principals, or being compelled to resign them from the parsimony which they practised towards him. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
• In the phylogenetic analysis, 42 sites were parsimony informative, 47 were uninformative and 380 were constant.
• Parsimony analyses recover a paraphyletic Rotifera, where a bdelloid rotifer and acanthocephalans form a monophyletic clade.
• The railways, too, were once a public utility, but were always treated with a degree of parsimony where funding was concerned.
• Some cynics even dared to advance the theory that parsimony on the behalf of the home management had stayed their fingers on the on-off switch.
• Simply put, parsimony is in vogue in boardrooms right now. Football's Level Playing Field
• Due to official parsimony only the one machine was built.
• It's not often I actually get excited by bivariate scatter plots, linear regression equations, and correlation coefficients, but the Archaeopteryx note is quite good, basically Bennett's defence of his interpretation of the nine known specimens of the taxon as a single "species," following from an awareness of interspecific variation resulting from ontogeny and, also, concerns about parsimony. As Kyle passes by.
• But others point to parsimony, quoting examples of penny-pinching and bare-bones operations.