"Ah, I see..." Alacruun thinks he grasps the idea, although he's not quite sure he entirely agrees with all of its conclusions. Then again, he's also not foolish enough to simply dismiss the idea without doing his own observation and testing. Of course, he's also not strictly a scientist so much as a scholar.

"Smaller scale? In what way? Narrowed down to a particular origin? Or studying a particular organism?"