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I don’t quite see how it disproves or undermines panspermia - surely if earth began with a racemic mixture of the building blocks, life could have started with either chirality (both being an unlikely scenario what with it vastly increasing complexity and therefore decreasing probability of evolution), and would then select for that chirality exclusively - so it’s no great surprise we have ended up with a single-handed biosphere.


An explanation is required for why that selection occurred here, and not in whatever biosphere from which this one was panspermically inseminated.




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