“Falsify”, as I’ve mentioned, is not a good word. What it would do is provide evidence against common descent. What I would expect from a phylogenetic analysis of different kinds is that there would be some robust tree structure in the shallower parts of the tree but at some point the lower branches would all collapse into a big polytomy, and this would happen consistently over all data. Structure at the top, chaos at the bottom. Thisk of course, is not what we see. I could make a better prediction if you had any clear notion of what a “kind” was, so we could know where on the tree to expect the structure to disappear.
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