The Fundamental Idea Behind Parsimony Is

Multiple Choice

The fundamental idea behind parsimony is

A) that the best phylogeny is the one that both explains the observed character data and posits the fewest evolutionary changes.
B) to provide a second approach to inferring phylogenetic relationships.
C) to compute the number of morphological or molecular differences between two or more species or populations.
D) that morphological traits cannot be used to reconstruct phylogenetic history.