Technique from biology helps explain the evolution of the American car
Saturday, July 2, 2016 - 21:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers have taken a unique approach to explain the way in which technologies evolve in modern society. Borrowing a technique that biologists might use to study the evolution of plants or animals, the scientists plotted the "births" and "deaths" of every American-made car and truck model from 1896 to 2014.