They forgot a simpler and perhaps more prominent selective force for one enantiomer over another: average experienced twist on the earliest nucleic acid chains from ocean currents. It should be slightly one way, due to Coriolis forces. Did life start North or South of the equator?
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They forgot a simpler and perhaps more prominent selective force for one enantiomer over another: average experienced twist on the earliest nucleic acid chains from ocean currents. It should be slightly one way, due to Coriolis forces. Did life start North or South of the equator?