Posted: Jan 06, 2015 1:47 pm
We do? I didn't know cars gave birth to other cars. I thought they were built in factories.
But here's another opportunity for empirical verification of your "hypothesis". Try construct a phylogenetic tree of all extant models of cars, based on the various components from which they are constructed, compared to the models from the past. If you're able to produce a branching pattern with a nested hierarchical arrangement, then you've shown that phylogenetics cannot be used to demonstrate common ancestry (or that cars actually do give birth to other cars.)