A biological question for biologist and other scientific types.

[∆nonymous]

I bet you are scientist. Are you left handed as well?

Right handed, but a scientist.

[Sephiroth X]

Right handed, but a scientist.

Interesting. I am left handed so I am mainly thinking logically on any subject. I tend to think and analyze too much.

[logrus]

In other words, its not impossible, but is a statistical improbability.

Just thinking about the size of the human g-nome was enough thought for me to go no way will that ever happen.

Granted, even with a healthy dash of random chance, the odds will never be good enough.

[Sephiroth X]

In other words, its not impossible, but is a statistical improbability.

Just thinking about the size of the human g-nome was enough thought for me to go no way will that ever happen.

Granted, even with a healthy dash of random chance, the odds will never be good enough.

Exactly what I was thinking.

[drizztix]

Interesting. I am left handed so I am mainly thinking logically on any subject. I tend to think and analyze too much.

do you always speak w/o really knowing wtf your talking about?

LEFT BRAINED (Right handed)
Logical
Sequential

Rational

Analytical

Objective

Looks at parts

RIGHT BRAINED (Left handed)
Random

Intuitive

Holistic
Synthesizing

Subjective

Looks at wholes

thanks now go play in traffic some more until you catch a biggin

[bob19991]

Drizz, I am left-handed, but am more "right-handed" in actions, so that is more of a generalization.

[Milonius]

RIGHT-HAND FTW! But seriously, I'm right handed and I seem to have the right handed qualities listed above.

[FoxyBunny]

I think the whole right-handed/left-handed thing is almost as scientifically reliable as palm-reading. Almost. One thing that has been shown is that left-handed people often process information differently than right-handed people, but within each group there is such wide differential that making generalizations like that is folly.

Now I do agree that the statistical probability of an exact replica of yourself is basically a complete impossibility, but dopplegangers are a whole other phenomenon. I find it fascinating how someone can look identical to a distant relative and bear only superficial resemblance to their closest kin. And THAT is something that is very common. I never got to take enough genetics classes to really understand that one, but I do know it has to do with recessive genes making an appearance. Anyone want to explain that to me?

[bob19991]

You mean of how I look more like my mother's father than either of my parents, considering I show my Irish heritage, but my mom shows her Italian heritage, and I get the "Irish" from my dad?

[FoxyBunny]

Yes, precisely. I look a bit like my mother, a little bit like my father, but I am the spitting image of my paternal grandmother. Deadly serious....she died before I was born, but her wedding picture put side-by-side with my senior picture looks like the same person with one pic in black and white. We even had our hair the same and were in the same pose. I've known people who look exactly like a distant cousin or some long-dead ancestor also.