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Published online 20 December 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011220-11
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Carbonaceous meteorites as a source of sugar-related organic compounds for the early Earth
Meteorites could have sweetened the earliest life.
Sugarfrom space may have nourished the first life on Earth. Two meteorites contain a range of polyols, organic substances closely related to sugars such as glucose1.
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