(January 29, 2020 at 4:50 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Samurai crabs are not food crabs so humans don't prey on them anyway.
But humans do prey on them. Here's from an article
Quote:Samurai crabs do show us how quickly evolution works. What we have here is an instance of artificial selection, or a change in the physical characteristics of another species owing to the influence of humans.
Think of it this way, first comes the memorable sea battle, spawning legends. Next a fisherman finds a crab with markings on its back that look something like a human face. Does he eat it? No, that crab is thrown back. Now it has a survival advantage over crabs whose markings don't happen to look like anything to humans.
A cycle begins. Every generation that has a more human looking face stands a better chance of survival than the last. In time, perhaps over a thousand years, the originally random markings on Samurai crabs really do look like Samurais.
https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentof...-crabs.php
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