Physics of Human Evolution

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Closed circulation of blood in vertebrates

Lecture 1: Overview animation of evolution of the human circulation from that of fish

Lecture 2: Blood as a one-way circuit – the basics

Lecture 3: Double-looped human circuit

Lecture 4: Single-looped fish circuit

Lecture 5: Physics of the redoxing blood circuit

Lecture 6: Closed circulation of blood as an archaic architectural trait

Chapter 2: Mechanism of action – single to double looped circuit transition

Lecture 1: The single-looped circuit and the oxyhaemoglobin shunt

Lecture 2: Reptilian transition – establishing a pulmonary passageway

Lecture 3: Vertebrate model of the single-looped circuit

Lecture 4: Vertebrate loop-in-loop circuitry interdependence in the geomagnetic field

Chapter 3: Developing a geometric algorithm to describe the transition

Lecture 1: Loop-in-loop spatial relationship

Lecture 2: Geometric representation of the loop-in-loop relationship

Chapter 4: Relating the geometric transition to extant anatomy, from fish to man

Lecture 1: Pharyngeal arches and the oxy-haem loop-in-loop

Lecture 2: Aortic arch transformation

Lecture 3: Interposed pulmonary passageway

Lecture 4: Divergence of the pivoted ventral (ventricular) hoops

Lecture 5: Spiraled aortic perfusion and pentagraphic somatomeric re-distribution

Lecture 6: Great veins in translation

Lecture 7: Retention of the angle of ventricular ejection

Lecture 8: Gastrulation and delivery of the double-looped circuit to air

Lecture 9: Influence of environmental conditions

Chapter 5: Summary

Lecture 1: Review of the biophysical model and its limitations