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Perfect phylogeny

   Each change can happen only once and is not reversible.
   Can be directed or not


Example: Consider binary characters. Each character corresponds to a gene.
0-gene absent
1-gene present
It make sense to assume directed changes only form 0 to 1.
The root has to be all zeros