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Like other animals, honeybees also behave in a way particular to
their own species. This behavior is full of dead ends for evolution-
ists, who try to explain—for example—that tens of thousands of bees
live together in the same hive and share a perfect communication sys-
tem, all by "instinct." But in his The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
himself asks a question that stresses the contradiction that his theory
meets, in trying to explain the concept of instinct:
... [C]an instincts be acquired and modified through natural se-
lection? What shall we say to so marvelous an instinct as that
which leads the bee to make cells, which have practically antic-
ipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? 18
