I might be misunderstanding but isn’t that how this works? As I understand it carcinisation doesn’t actually turn for example lobsters into crabs, it just makes them crab-shaped
Exactly. The meme doesn’t say that they turn into crabs but uses the correct term of carcinisation. Tree is a term about morphology, nothing to do with clades. So snakes is the odd one out because it does describe a monophonic group. Lizards don’t turn into snakes, they just look like them.
So the meme isn’t about Snakes but limbless lizards that look like snakes
That’s how I’m reading it at least.
I might be misunderstanding but isn’t that how this works? As I understand it carcinisation doesn’t actually turn for example lobsters into crabs, it just makes them crab-shaped
Exactly. The meme doesn’t say that they turn into crabs but uses the correct term of carcinisation. Tree is a term about morphology, nothing to do with clades. So snakes is the odd one out because it does describe a monophonic group. Lizards don’t turn into snakes, they just look like them.