The shells of crabs found around a particular coastal location in Japan seem mostly to resemble the legendary face of a Samurai. Given below are two explanations of this observed fact. Which of these strikes you as a scientific explanation ? A tragic sea accident several centuries ago drowned a young Samurai. As a tribute to his bravery, nature through its inscrutable ways immortalised his face by imprinting it on the crab shells in that area. After the sea tragedy, fishermen in that area, in a gesture of honour to their dead hero, let free any crab shell caught by them which accidentally had a shape resembling the face of a Samurai. Consequently, the particular shape of the crab shell survived longer and therefore in course of time the shape was genetically propagated. This is an example of evolution by artificial selection.
In the second explanation (b), it is an example of evolution by artificial selection as it can happen as in a gesture of honour to their dead hero, let free any crab shell caught by them which accidentally has a shape resembling the face of a Samurai. Hence, the particular shape of the crab survived longer and therefore in course of time the shape was genetically propagated which seems to be more scientific. While in the first explanation (a), As a tribute to bravery, nature through its inscrutable ways immortalised his face by imprinting it on the crab shells in the area seems to be less scientific making it some supernatural things. Final Answer The explanation of (b) seems more scientific explanation.
