carcinisation

created: 2023-05-18T15:03 Thu
tags: biology bullshit public
I think carcinisation is bullshit. You can find out what it is on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

[ ~/documents/books/biology/Crustacean_Issues_18_Decapod_Crustacean_Phylogenetics.pdf ]

[ Crustacean Issues 18: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, Martin, J.W., Crandall, K.A. & Felder, D.L. ]

page 400
"the sister group to Anomura is now widely accepted as Brachyura, the two clades constituting Meiura"
page 93 contains a nice image illustrating this


Based on this, all crabs are monophyletic, as all crabs are in either anomura or brachyura, and it is most reasonable to assume they evolved from a proto-crab. This means carcinisation is bullshit.