The title of this post (“Yes, It’s Subjective, But Why All The Crabs?”) gave me entirely the wrong idea of what the post was going to be about, and likely would have caused me to skip it if I didn’t recognize the author.
Yeah, I didn’t quickly find a good picture with lots of different species. I too was kinda sad about that.
The Hall of Biodiversity at the natural history museum in NYC does have a little section of crustaceans, which is the closest I quickly found, and is very much the sort of thing you’d probably like if you (like me) would really rather have read a blog post explaining carcinization:
The title of this post (“Yes, It’s Subjective, But Why All The Crabs?”) gave me entirely the wrong idea of what the post was going to be about, and likely would have caused me to skip it if I didn’t recognize the author.
(I thought it was going to actually be about crabs, not about crabs-as-a-metaphor. I was reminded of the article There’s No Such Thing As A Tree (Phylogenetically).)
I confess I was hoping for a theory of carcinization.
Even more infuriating, it appears that the picture shows a variety of porcelain crabs, and not in fact different species.
Yeah, I didn’t quickly find a good picture with lots of different species. I too was kinda sad about that.
The Hall of Biodiversity at the natural history museum in NYC does have a little section of crustaceans, which is the closest I quickly found, and is very much the sort of thing you’d probably like if you (like me) would really rather have read a blog post explaining carcinization: