No such thing as a free lunch: a note on what 'natural' means in the Phylogenetic Minimum Description Length optimality criterion and how PMDL relocates substantive assumptions into the chosen description language onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Wheeler and Varón (2025) proposed phylogenetic minimum description length (PMDL) as a phylogenetic optimality criterion grounded in algorithmic (Kolmogorov) complexity. PMDL applies the minimum descr...
