The Extraterrestrial Origin of the Homochirality of Biomolecules – Rebuttal to a Critique
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 29 (2) , 215-219
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006544203107
Abstract
Having concluded that abiotic terrestrial mechanisms would have been ineffectual for the origin of terrestrial homochirality, we have proposed an alternative extraterrestrial scenario involving...This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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