ScienceDaily: A UCLA-led team of researchers has 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.
In addition to uncovering interesting insights about the auto industry, the strategy -- which could be used to study the evolution of phones, music, TVs or any number of...