#endoskeletal species like humans may have an easier time gripping ridgid tools with our squishy flesh

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We’ve got three people cooking up Crab Lore and yet nobody still has any idea how they’re able to do all that cool science stuff without any hands

Is this post a joke to you :P

I jest I jest, but technically cerebrocrustaceans do have hands, it’s just that they don’t form ones recognisable to the human or any other opposable thumb body plan. Their claws are the only hands they know and they’ve unrelatedly become intelligent alongside their physical evolution, they aren’t the ones who need to adapt hands to compensate for all the engineering and mechanics that are stereotypically smart-people-things to do, they adapt the engineering and mechanics to fit comfortably with the form of their claws. Cerebrocrustaceans are more than intelligent enough to add grips and straps to things that would otherwise be more difficult to hold without other fingers to make it secure, let alone them being significantly more used to claw dexterity and manipulations than our brains could comprehend :P

Cool science stuff requires a brain first to think about that cool science stuff, and a brain smart enough to do that is smart enough to figure out solutions to documenting it or putting the science to practice. I’m no scientist but I feel like the evolution of sapience in a species slows their physical adaptability and compensates for the adaptations the mind creates, just look at humans and our shitty skeleton, we’ve been pretty much the same for quite some time but our evolution of technology especially the initial stages of the modern era were unprecedented! Not to compare monkeys to crabs or anything :P it’s not like Earth crabs are incapable of grabbing things let alone the coconut crabs with their large terrestrial size to actually climb trees hehe-