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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I thought crab-like animals were all actually pretty closely related to each other, i.e. all crab-like animals are arthropods, which is a less broad category (despite the incredibly huge amount of species in it) than 'all plants that can form a wooden trunk'. Any taxonomists here to confirm/deny?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Things have independently evolved into crabs like five times or something

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, but I think OP’s point is those 5-6 crab-events all came from a narrow taxonomic group. All plant families have some trees. Only one sub-group of animals contains crabs.

It is as if all trees only came from members of the lily family.

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