Tag: The Designed Body
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.
Low Blood Pressure and Evolutionary Biology
What happens when the body can’t maintain proper blood pressure?
Blood Pressure: Standing Up to Gravity
The seemingly simple act of keeping the body upright requires a complex, interrelated system.
Controlling Blood Pressure Requires an Irreducibly Complex System
Without any one component, the system as a whole would fail and life would be impossible.
The Human Body Continues to Give Evolutionary Biologists High Blood Pressure
Think of it like the pressure that can be felt as water rushes through a garden hose.
Understanding Cardiovascular Function: Evolutionary Biologists Face a Catch-22
Understanding how life came into being requires understanding how the body dies of cardiac arrest.
The Cardiovascular System: Regulating Heart Rate
To allow for the survival of our earliest ancestors, four different aspects of cardiac function would need to have been working properly.
Cardiovascular Function: Heart Failure Is a Problem for Patients — and for Evolutionary Theory
When the heart cannot meet the metabolic needs of the body it is said to be in heart failure.