Talen Ayers

"Nature doesn't just adapt. Nature cheats, changes the rules, and slips out the back door with your wallet while you're still trying to figure out what happened."

- Talen Ayers to his daughter.

Talen Ayers was a famous research geneticist and the father of Maren Ayers. His daughter described him as an embarrassing backwoods yokel.

Biography
Dr. Ayers taught evolutionary theory to his daughter. He taught a hypothesis that mutation rates increase when populations have been drastically reduced. Maren could not see the logic in this, as this would require biochemical communication at the genetic level. Dr. Ayers failed his daughter that semester, despite her perfect test scores, saying she didn't get the most important part.

Dr. Ayers was upset when his daughter dropped out of grad school to join the Dominion Marine Corps as a medic.

Maren Ayers came to believe his theories at the Siege of Cask, where a substantially reduced zerg population evolved a new breed, the baneling.