Anathem and Escher

There is one species for every person on Earth.

Yours is a breed of mantis that disguises itself as a flower the color of deep saffron. It lives on the top of a single mesa in the Amazon that has been isolated from the rest of the world for at least six hundred thousand years. To catch its prey, it sways with the wind in a hypnotic dance that lures the unwary. You will never see it.