• Anisette [any/all]@quokk.au
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    1 day 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
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      1 day 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.