JM: Following LH's indication, in B.Boyd (ch4,  N's Ada, page 71 on SM 124-5): "when a protective device was carried to a point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance, and luxury far in excess of a predator's power of appreciation." 

 

What strikes me in this debate is the fact that Man was not considered a predator! A dangerous one, under all accounts, whose powers of appreciation are equal to his powers of deception...

J.A.: That is a very excellent, A+++++ point.

 

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