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Horseshoe crabs be like (i.ibb.co)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Doesn't it? It doesn't seem obvious either way. Are you an actual paleontologist, or just guessing?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 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] 5 points 3 days ago

Makes me wonder, would epigenetic speciation be possible?

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