Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "Почему пчёлы любят шестиугольники? — Зак Паттерсон и Энди Петерсон" video.

  1. This does a disservice to evolution education >:( Bees don't decide anything, it's in their genes, it's instinctive.  As bees (like all life) reproduce there is variation in each offspring, like a bit of experimentation.  If the new bee's slightly different instincts make it build a hive which is slightly stronger and better, then the bee will survive better, and this means it will reproduce better - it's kids will carry the genes to build the better hives. Whereas if the variation gave the bee the instincts to build a worse hive, then it will survive worse, it might die without having any kids at all, so the genes will not be passed on.  Thus bad experiments get eliminated and good experiments become the next generation, so each generation is slightly better at building hives than the last was.  Bees that can't build good hives DIE, and the only ones left are the ones who build good hives, that's the bees we're seeing - the ones who were lucky enough to be born with the right instincts, everyone else is dead. The bees don't think about it or decide anything, they're just born with a slightly experimental variation in their instincts which either helps them live or die.  DEATH is the one making the decisions, not the bee :(
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