parsimony

11:57 Jan 18, 2020
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Anthropology / Evolution and ancestry
English term or phrase: parsimony
In the following quote from a study by two biological anthropologists, they state their reasons for arguing that great apes share together nest-building habits from a common ancestry:

We must be perfectly clear,” they wrote, “why we feel justified in searching for a common origin of human and great ape nesting/camping patterns. . . . If four species—orangutan, chimpanzee, gorilla, human—perform a certain activity whose motor components and end result are similar, parsimony suggests that their last common ancestor was itself doing something of the kind, and that its descendants have been so doing ever since
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4 +1مبدأ القصد / التقتير
Hassan Achahbar
5لتوفير الوقت/باختصار
adel almergawy
5مقترحات التفسير البسيط- مقترحات الجهد الأقل - مقترحات مبدأ الضن- مقترحات مبدأ التفوير
Ramadan Ibrahim


  

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مبدأ القصد / التقتير


Explanation:
أو مبدأ البساطة في تفسير الأشياء
يسمى أيضا بشفرة أوكام

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/نصل_أوكام

Hassan Achahbar
Morocco
Local time: 10:51
Native speaker of: Arabic

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agree  Fuad Yahya: I like مبدأ القصد.
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لتوفير الوقت/باختصار


Explanation:
It means in brief ,to save time

adel almergawy
Egypt
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مقترحات التفسير البسيط- مقترحات الجهد الأقل - مقترحات مبدأ الضن- مقترحات مبدأ التفوير


Explanation:
The parsimony principle is basic to all science and tells us to choose the simplest scientific explanation that fits the evidence. In terms of tree-building, that means that, all other things being equal, the best hypothesis is the one that requires the fewest evolutionary changes.

يعني مقترحات تطبق أو تستخدم أسهل تفسير للأمور والظواهر، أو تقترح أقل جهد مبذول



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Note added at 1 day 7 hrs (2020-01-19 19:29:00 GMT)
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(التفوير) * مقترحات مبدأ التوفير

Example sentence(s):
  • Her stepfather's parsimony was well known.

    Reference: http://https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/phy...
    Reference: http://https://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-en/parsimony/
Ramadan Ibrahim
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 14:51
Native speaker of: Arabic
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