Thread: Natural processes seem to favor amino acid "handedness"
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Old 11-March-2008, 01:27 PM
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Lack of evidence. There's nothing to suggest that handedness of spaceborne molecules is a result rather than a cause of handedness in known life. And space is also more abundant in conditions hostile to life than Earth is.

All we've proved is that we're made of common materials. Again.
Is handedness in life on earth a result or a cause?
I don't know, but given it seems to define life as we know it I still find it curious "there's nothing to suggest."

But do you consider the earth's biosphere to be a closed system?
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