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<p>characters and character states to infer one or more optimal <a href="page.php?w=phylogenetic_tree">phylogenetic tree</a>s for a set of <a href="page.php?w=taxa">taxa</a>, commonly a set of <a href="page.php?w=species">species</a> or reproductively isolated <a href="page.php?w=Population_%28biology%29">population</a>s of a single species. These methods operate by evaluating candidate phylogenetic trees according to an explicit <a href="page.php?w=optimality_criterion">optimality criterion</a>; the tree with the most favorable score is taken as</p><p>
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