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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 days ago
I thought crab-like animals were all actually pretty closely related to each other, i.e. all crab-like animals are arthropods, which is a less broad category than ‘all the plants that can form a wooden trunk’. Any taxonomists here to confirm/deny?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Things have independently evolved into crabs like five times or something
meyotch@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Yes, but I think OP’s point is those 5-6 crab-events all came from a narrow taxonomic group. All plant families have some trees. Only one sub-group of animals contains crabs.
It is as if all trees only came from members of the lily family.