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The question is "how?" though. The chirality filter on Earth is basically Earth-life: it almost ubiquitously creates left-handed amino acids. But all known chemical ways of doing this produce racemic mixtures of both types.

If we found say, a high pressure synthesis method which was heavily biased chirally, then that would be good evidence but none has been discovered.




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