Comment on Evolution

plyth@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is worth noting – as someone who’s reasonably knowledgeable about arguably the main example, king crabs – that carcinisation is really interesting, but I think some people took the meme semi-unironically as this especially widespread example of convergent evolution.

  In reality, it’s in the true crabs’ sister infraorder, Anomura. Which is still super cool, but even the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal male body body form is just a runaway shitpost.

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  • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What meme?

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This one. It’s easy enough seeing these, if you’re not familiar with the subject, to overzealously think that this is a widespread phenomenon.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal male body body form is just a runaway shitpost.

    What about that sounds like something I wouldn’t want to start a cult about?

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• joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why couldn’t they just have called it “crabinization?”

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    sounds like getting lice.

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