> “The findings suggest that life’s eventual homochirality might not be a result of chemical determinism but could have emerged through later evolutionary pressures.”
Homochirality resulting from chemical determinism would be the more surprising result to me.
The straightforward explanation is that random perturbations early in the evolution of life broke symmetry and led to homochirality of all descendent life, similar to how random perturbations early in the life of the universe broke symmetry and led to our world being made of particles instead of antiparticles.
Homochirality resulting from chemical determinism would be the more surprising result to me.
The straightforward explanation is that random perturbations early in the evolution of life broke symmetry and led to homochirality of all descendent life, similar to how random perturbations early in the life of the universe broke symmetry and led to our world being made of particles instead of antiparticles.