Did the seeds of life travel to Earth inside an asteroid?
Nearly a hundred different types of amino acids have been observed in meteorites, but only twelve of the twenty considered essential to life have been found. Biological amino acids also have an advantage that gives them away: they all have a “left-handed” structure, while abiotic processes create equally left-handed and right-handed molecules. Durkin says many …
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