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thumb|Porcelain crabs resemble true crabs, but are more closely related to [[squat lobsters and hermit crabs.]]
thumb|Porcelain crabs resemble true crabs, but are more closely related to [[squat lobsters and hermit crabs.]]
Carcinisation (American English: carcinization) is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by Lancelot Alexander Borradaile, who described it in 1916 as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).