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Crabs and Convergent Evolution
- bediger4000 6y agoGood article, interesting concept. But it fails to answer 2 urgent questions: 1. There's an extinct group of crustaceans the Cyclida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclida) that were apparently quite crab-like. This article doesn't address whether Cyclida were delicious when steamed, and muscle segments dunked in drawn butter. Really dropped the ball here. 2. If carcinization happened at least 5 times on Earth, has it occurred on other, extrasolar, planets? Science needs to get cracking on this.