• AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    In case your serious that you don’t get it. The bottom pic is all crustaceans that are more closely related to insects than fish.

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      5 months ago

      Op is saying they don’t get why many ppl frown upon eating terrestrial insects but do eat aquatic ones.

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        5 months ago

        Of note, insects diverged from the arthropod line that would become crabs, lobsters, etc in the beginning of the Carboniferous or late Devonian, a solid 350-400 million years ago. This means crabs and grasshoppers are more distantly related to each other than humans and frogs.

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      5 months ago

      …That’s the point they’re making…

      They don’t get how we like to eat water arthropods but not land ones…