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Does particle spin affect life on Earth?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Fundamental Reason Why We All Have One Handed Molecular Components?

Life on earth prefers one kind of handed molecules and not the other. We don't know if it was just like a random event billions of years ago in the primordial soup that led us to all have this one handedness or maybe there is a reason. It might be that the processes that generate these organic molecules naturally prefer to generate left handed molecules.

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