In this episode we examine the coagulation system and expose the truth about its complexity. References: Whale Hageman Factor (Factor XII) Prevented Production Due to Pseudogene Conversion Umeko Semba, Yoko Shibuya, Hiroaki Okabe, Tetsuro Yamamoto http://www.thrombosisresearch.com/article/S0049-3848(97)00307-1/pdf Factor XII Expendable Molecular characterization of cat factor XII gene and identification of a mutation causing factor XII deficiency in a domestic shorthair cat colony. - Diane Bender http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0300985814532821 Factor XII deficiency and von Willebrand's disease in a family of miniature poodle dogs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3484442 Step-By-Step - Russell Doolittle http://dogfish.ucsd.edu/recentpubs/CSH2009.pdf Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/leafwarbler/csu-fresno The evolution of vertebrate blood coagulation as viewed from a comparison of puffer fish and sea squirt genomes - Russell Doolittle http://www.pnas.org/content/100/13/7527.full Sea Squirt Thrombin catalyzing fibrinogen to fibrin https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9418002?dopt=AbstractPlus https://www.google.com/search?q=clotting+cascade&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/DI/Clotting.html https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/can_science_support_creationism Creationist Arguments http://www.doesgodexist.org/NovDec98/IrreducibleComplexityBloodClotting.html Darwin's Black Box https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=7L8mkq4jG6EC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Behe,+M.+J.+(2006).+Darwin%E2%80%99s+black+box:+The+biochemical+challenge+to+evolution+(10th+Anniversary+Edition).+New+York,+NY:+Simon+and+Schuster.&ots=ZCvnD0mrbO&sig=213Uwx-47RpyL7KMXw2iqzXYRak#v=onepage&q&f=false Platelets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platelet The evolution of vertebrate blood coagulation as viewed from a comparison of puffer fish and sea squirt genomes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12808152 A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/nature24048.html Doolittle, R. F., (1993) "The evolution of vertebrate blood coagulation: A case of yin and yang," Thrombosis and Haemostasis 70: 24-28. Doolittle, R. F., and Feng, D. F., (1987) "Reconstructing the evolution of vertebrate blood coagulation from a consideration of the amino acid sequences of clotting proteins," Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 52: 869-874. http://symposium.cshlp.org/content/52/869 Doolittle, R. F., and Riley, M. (1990) "The amino-acid sequence of lobster fibriongen reveals common ancestry with vitellogenin." Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 167: 16-19. Xu, X., and Doolittle, R. F., (1990) "Presence of a vertebrate fibrinogen-like sequence in an echinoderm." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 87: 2097-2101.