title: Handedness, origin of life and evolution.
abstract: Biological polymers have a preferred chirality ond can replicate themselves. Physical arguments provide insight into which of these unique and apparently related properties evolved first, and by what mechanism.
authors.affiliation: N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Avetisov
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Goldanskii
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Kuz'min
mesh_terms: D000409:Alanine / Q000737:chemistry; D002384:Catalysis; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D000069497:Origin of Life; D055585:Physical Phenomena; D010825:Physics; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D009696:Nucleic Acids; D011108:Polymers; D011506:Proteins; D000409:Alanine