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It is hypothesized that egg guarding evolved in treehoppers three times (labelled 1, 2, and 3). Imagine if the trait actually appeared in the ancestral population at the base of the tree, labelled Membracinae. What is the minimum number of trait changes that would be necessary to produce the presence of egg guarding depicted in the tree?
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