She smiles a bit. "I mean, I wasn't getting to the bottom of it all by myself, from scratch. It's a field with centuries of foundation behind it. But yeah, some. My research was about..." Cosima considers how to describe it; she's done it a few times in Thedas and she's still not sure she's been successful.

"If you started with two organisms that were physically identical in every respect, and exposed them to different stimuli, they might end up physically different. Like, my sister and I are twins, but I need lenses to sharpen my vision and she doesn't. But what I'm studying is on a much smaller scale."