This sounds like bad science to me. If the crabs eat smaller specimens that
means they would be eating mostly young snails, depleting that part of the
population. There would then, possibly, be more food available for the
remaining snails which might grow larger because they are eating more. This
is not adaptation but a change in the environment. pete krull

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