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Re:... evolution has purposely kept them ... on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · 2004-12-07 01:39 · Score: 2, Informative

but you do not get optimal organisms, just good enough ones to survive and reproduce!
... evolution has purposely kept them ... on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · 2004-12-06 22:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

why? evolution is not a process of "optimisation" it is a selection process. Those who are "good enough" survive.
Obviously there is no disadvantage for being left handed, why should there be a selection against it?
Re:bioinformatics.org? on Open Source Biology Initiative · 2004-11-22 05:01 · Score: 1
well there is http://www.open-bio.org/ which hosts
- biojava,
- biopython,
- bioperl,
- etc.