A coconut crab also known as a robber crab have more in common with humans because of the food they eat. The food they eat are fruits, nuts, seeds, and pith from trees.
Robber crabs have more in common with humans, which are vertebrates. Sponges are simple organisms that don’t have tissues. Crabs and humans have specialized cells and tissues, bilateral symmetry, and a coelom. According to the phylogenetic tree, vertebrates and arthropods have more nodes, or common ancestors, than crabs have with sponges.
