Life's chirality from prebiotic environments

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• punctuated equilibrium 100%
• handedness 95%
• environmental disturbance 84%
• polymerization 64%
• environmental effect 63%
• reaction rate 62%
• sugar 62%
• symmetry 59%
• amino acid 57%
• sampling 35%

Physics & Astronomy

• chirality 67%
• extraterrestrial life 55%
• autocatalysis 49%
• stereochemistry 48%
• handedness 41%
• sugars 39%
• amino acids 36%
• polymerization 29%
• reaction kinetics 28%
• broken symmetry 27%
• disturbances 27%
• platforms 26%
• sampling 26%

Agriculture & Biology

• representative sampling 99%
• optical isomerism 92%
• stereochemistry 77%
• prebiotics 71%
• polymerization 58%
• sugars 41%
• amino acids 35%