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Scientists May Have Found the Blueprint of the Human Body at the Bottom of the Ocean
(www.popularmechanics.com)
If science journalists can stop dumbing down the titles to the point of being misleading that'd be great.
A study found that the sea anemone, a member of the Cnidarian phylum, uses bilaterian-like techniques to form its body.
This suggests that these techniques likely evolved before these two phyla separated evolutionarily some 600 to 700 million years ago, though it can't be ruled out that these techniques evolved independently.
Ok, so say that in the title. A blueprint implies instructions for making a human, which is not what they found.
So it’s surprising that this species in the phylum Cnidarians (along with jellyfish, corals, and other sea creatures) contains an ancient blueprint for bilaterians, of which Homo sapiens are a card-carrying member.
[sea anemones] use a technique commonly associated with bilaterians, known as bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) shuttling, to build their bodies.
Again, this is not a "blueprint" for a human body. Just say they use the same mechanism as us to accomplish a similar task, it's surprising enough on its own without needing to reach for a comparison to a human construct.
A better title would be "sea anemones have been found to use the same molecular mechanisms for growth as bilaterians like mammals"