That's not even dumbing-this-down-for-the-humans, that's dumbing-this-down-for-toddlers, and Cosima arches an eyebrow, looking over her glasses at him. If she'd been standing, she'd be in full-on, arms crossed, hip cocked sass posture.

'I'm in the process of getting my PhD in Experimental Evolutionary Developmental Biology; I'm far from stupid. And believe me, I know what talking down to the laypeople sounds like, I do it all the time.' That last bit she hadn't actually meant to say, but, well, takes one to know one and all that; she can own it.