in reply to Re^2: Maximal Parsimony Problem
in thread Maximal Parsimony Problem

I still don't quite understand. We have
human: C chimp: T mouse: T rat: C

So which comparisons exactly lead to to a number of 2? With which rules?

As a poor perl programmer I'm not familiar with the phylogenetic tree, so if that's relevant here please explain in which relation these four examples appear in that tree.