Evolution has favored the crab-like form, leading to the scientific term 'carcinization' which describes how non-crab crustaceans evolve into crab-like forms, occurring multiple times.
Research indicates carcinization has happened at least five times over the last 180 million years, while decarcinization, or departure from the crab-like ancestor, has occurred at least seven times.
Javier Luque states that, while some wonder about humans evolving into crabs, this isn’t possible; the change reflects the diverse beauty found in evolutionary processes.
The phenomenon of carcinization, introduced by Borradaile in 1916, illustrates the evolutionary attempts to converge towards a crab-like form across different crustacean lineages.
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