Full package name: mesquite.meristic.ParsimonyMeristicLinear.ParsimonyMeristicLinear Duty: Ancestral states for parsimony model (mesquite.parsimony.lib.ParsAncStatesForModel)
Module Explanation
Reconstructs the ancestral states of mersitic characters so as to minimize the sum of absolute values of changes (linear, Wagner, Farris or Manhattan parsimony). If the meristic character has multiple items, then length is reported on only the first item.
Author(s): Wayne P. Maddison and David R. Maddison