**Majority rule in complex mixtures: Study identifies new mechanism for control of phase separation**

The very first life on Earth is thought to have developed from "protocells"—liquid mixtures of many different types of molecules. Researchers from the University of Göttingen have now shown that in such mixtures, small imbalances in the number of molecules of different types can have an unexpected effect.

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-majority-complex-mixtures-mechanism-phase.html