Second, as the candidate of the "anti-establishment", Humala can paint Garcia as a traditional politician, a creature of the past.
Our "leaders" are usually creatures of the recent past.
It's one thing to pose for a portrait with a six-shooter on your hip; it's another thing to use the creatures of the remote past, creatures beyond the scale of human existence and human intentions, as crude existential prostheses.
He did so by applying to fossils the principles of comparative anatomy, asking what light the body shapes of living animals could cast on the shapes of creatures from the past.
A new avian family tree, represented here as a circle, reveals this increasing rate of diversification of feathered creatures during the past 50 million years.
Nor are such creatures merely the province of the past and the poetaster.
Also hewing to convention this season, at least more than in the past, was the Creatures of the Wind show that immediately followed.
"Build my gallows high, baby," Robert Mitchum tells Jane Greer in the indelible classic "Out of the Past," surrendering to the glorious creature who's the beautiful instrument of his destruction.
After all, where we are creatures of past and future, she lives in the minute's joy: a little wolf, racing and snorting and scaring; and the small ingratiating spirit, doing anything to please.
To the townspeople, the refugees seem "creatures of the twilight", appearing "from the darkness of centuries past".
