Sea Squirts and the Evolution of the Blood-Clotting Machinery

It does not matter if you care or not about Behe's silly creationist claims, but they sure provide great starting points for cool science blog posts. Here, Ian Musgrave uses this tactic to educate us all about the ancient roles of some molecules we use in blood-clotting, but invertebrete Chordates use for other functions.

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