Inevitable

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Challenge #04382-K364: Defying Inevitability

There are only three constants in the universe:

Death, Taxes, Evolution into crustacean

Human seem to be the only outlier, but not for the reason many think of. -- Anon Guest

Human fiction has played with the notion since before the Shattering. Someone capable of taking aspects from various beasts attempts to create the most dangerous being possible. The beast that emerges is, of course, a Human. Someone capable of messing with evolution concocts the ultimate form of life and gets... a crab.

Crabs have evolved thousands of times on thousands of planets. They're a sensible form for an amphibian with an exoskeleton. Some might say 'design', but there is little in the way of evidence for a single designer of the known universe.

But this is not about theology.

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