NP: featherless bipeds and whatnot

[Ian Livingston]

Just floating a definitional query here. Everybody knows, I assume, about
the debate in the Academy that led Diogenes the cynic to offer up plucked a
chicken; and I suppose we all pretty much sign on one way or another with
Aristotle on the social animal bit; but I'd like to offer a new definition
of homo sapiens: Man is the catastrophic animal. Any feedback? Alternately,
of course, it might be a good name for a band.
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