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Letter: How we ended up with a lop-sided natural world

Published 6 May 2020

From James Haigh, Luccombe, Isle of Wight, UK

The question of what caused many molecules fundamental to life to be chiral (18 April, p44) – akin to being either right or left-handed – is easily solved. Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam clearly shows God using his right hand to give life to Adam.

Issue no. 3281 published 9 May 2020

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