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Professor Susan Rosser, co-director of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry, told the Lords Science and Technology committee, which produced the report, "we were ahead of the game, but we have lost that leadership because of substantial investments in the US and Korea".

“You catch them with a net, like a cartoon of some eccentric entomology guy running around the forest—a crazy gringo,” Rosser says.

Rosser adds that the findings reveal a nuanced look at evolution’s tangled pathways.

In search of answers, Neil Rosser, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, and colleagues studied more than 1000 specimens of the three species in insect enclosures in Peru and England.

Leigh Rosser was similarly nonplused while describing his biggest challenge as design fabrication lead.