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
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.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
So the meme isn’t about Snakes but limbless lizards that look like snakes
anise@quokk.au 4 weeks 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
lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks 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.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 weeks ago
That’s how I’m reading it at least.