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I once tried to prove that the hexagonal tessellation is the most efficient one for the perimeter/area ratio.

I stopped when I realized bees make honeycombs in hexagons. So they can safely store the most honey with the least material.

Proof by natural selection.

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Not a proof, or at least a rigorous one. Presupposing the reasons why bees store in that way. It may be a coincidence it’s efficient, and there is some hidden variable we’ve as of yet left unexplored. 

But yeah, *probably* efficiency.

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I remember thinking it through.

Bees want to avoid a structure where a single hole can drain the whole hive.

So you have to section it off.

You want easy access, and if you don’t make long tubes then you reduce how much is readily available.

I studied physics, so it’s good enough for us :)

Yeah, this is your hypothesis, based on the evidence you’ve just stated. To prove it is to make it certain, but we haven’t ruled out alternative cases. Even in physics you don’t prove something unless you’ve ruled out all alternative hypotheses.