Tag: Continuing Series
How Clotting Factors Form a Fibrin Clot, Completing Hemostasis
Where do the fibrin strands come from?
Vasoconstriction and Platelet Aggregation Defy Evolutionary Explanations
Hemostasis and the clots it forms must turn on only when it’s actually needed and must turn off and stay off when it’s not.
Blood Clotting Requires Three Different Processes Working Together
Think of it like when a pipe in your home bursts. Immediate action is needed.
Blood Flow Requires a Complex, Well-Designed System
Blood hurtling through the smaller arteries is like automobiles in a crush of rush hour traffic trying to enter the exit ramps to reach their destinations.
Blood Pressure and the Goldilocks Principle
The numbers have to be “just right,” a vital aspect of life that evolutionary biologists never seem to address.