##  [Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI)](/index.php/minimum-number-individuals-mni) 

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Definition

The smallest integer count of separate individual organisms that must be present to account for all identified skeletal elements in a faunal assemblage, determined by counting the maximum number of the same diagnostic element or combination of non-duplicable traits.