You might enjoy a collection of essays of the lectures of Carl Sagan called the Varieties of Scientific Experiences. He had one on the organic universe. Where he talked about how absurdly common organic compounds are in our solar system, had a little mention of the first time cyanide was discovered on a comet. I am not sure if this is currently accepted or just at the time of writing but he also argued that those compounds formed when the solar system was still just a rotating disc of gas and dust.
Life “choose” to use what was common, and it is common because the stuff life has access to was stuff that was less likely to decay. It is survivorship bias.
You might enjoy a collection of essays of the lectures of Carl Sagan called the Varieties of Scientific Experiences. He had one on the organic universe. Where he talked about how absurdly common organic compounds are in our solar system, had a little mention of the first time cyanide was discovered on a comet. I am not sure if this is currently accepted or just at the time of writing but he also argued that those compounds formed when the solar system was still just a rotating disc of gas and dust.
Life “choose” to use what was common, and it is common because the stuff life has access to was stuff that was less likely to decay. It is survivorship bias.