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Horseshoe crabs be like (i.ibb.co)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Molecular biologist.
It's mostly a matter of what we don't know. Paleontological evidence certainly shows that horseshoe crabs didn't change much in their appearance. However, we just don't know to what extent other aspects of their biology are as conserved. Therefore, it is just unscientific to say that horseshoe crabs are 'living fossils' or that they didn't evolve for millions of years. They may have, they may not have

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I came to mention the same. Static phenotype ≠ static genotype.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

If anyone else is struggling, this reasonably basic article helped me https://sciencenotes.org/genotype-vs-phenotype-definitions-and-examples/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Much obliged ! I was just thinking these strings of letters kinda looked like words

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Honestly, I'm pretty sure they post any old brain rot here and then have an AI fabricate supporting articles online just to mess with us...

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