Comment on Evolution

lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legless_lizard

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So the meme isn’t about Snakes but limbless lizards that look like snakes

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    • anise@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I might be misunderstanding but isn’t that how this works? As I understand it carcinisation doesn’t actually turn for example lobsters into crabs, it just makes them crab-shaped

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      • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Exactly. The meme doesn’t say that they turn into crabs but uses the correct term of carcinisation. Tree is a term about morphology, nothing to do with clades. So snakes is the odd one out because it does describe a monophonic group. Lizards don’t turn into snakes, they just look like them.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s how I’m reading it at least.

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