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It comes from a recent clickbaity headline, "Why does everything keep evolving into crabs?".

Crab-like creatures have independently evolved a bunch of times from different crustaceans. Nobody is saying that fish keep evolving into crabs.

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Nobody? GP said "While every animal seems to eventually become like a crab...". That's not nobody. I think you'll find a lot of people online who have gotten the "crustacean carcinisation" idea wrong and think it applies to all animals.

Fine, fine - I will clarify so as not to get dinged by the pedants.

Nobody in the scientific community is saying that fish keep evolving into crabs.

But... what about humans???

Why you think rust is so populare?!

See: Zoidberg

okay then...

Nobody in the scientific community except humans is saying that fish keep evolving into crabs.

Well, the joke was about whether humans keep evolving into crabs, but I think I crashed the joke's landing. :)

I think you'll find there's no such thing as a fish.

Source: Pedant.

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