Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life Might We All Be Aliens? /

• Main Author: Boyd, Richard N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Physics.; Evolutionary biology.; Astrobiology.; Astronomy.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Evolutionary Biology.

Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have been produced in the cosmos, and that the fact that the Earthly amino acids have a specific handednes...