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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)
Blood platelets and Charles Darwin’s natural selection
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Received: 7 February 2023
Accepted: 1 March 2023
Accepted: 1 March 2023
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Blood platelets are indubitably one of the wonders of the world, whether the first of the eight may be a matter of debate, but they certainly are. Compared with all other cells they are much smaller and, like few others, devoid of a nucleus but despite this, they are extremely complex and provided with multiple functions [...].
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Momi S, Gresele P. Blood platelets and Charles Darwin’s natural selection. Bleeding Thromb Vascul Biol [Internet]. 2023 Mar. 30 [cited 2025 Nov. 7];2(1). Available from: https://www.btvb.org/btvb/article/view/63
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