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 confined to some members of 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
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 confined to some members of the true crabs’ sister infraorder, Anomura. Which is still super cool, but even the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal
male bodybody form is just a runaway shitpost.What about that sounds like something I wouldn’t want to start a cult about?
What meme?
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.
Why couldn’t they just have called it “crabinization?”
Because they spent years in education and feel it gave them the duty to name things in latinish or greekish ways
The disease cancer could also have been called crab because it was make for the crab-like shape of tumours
sounds like getting lice.