Do Locusts Understand Prime Numbers?

Nor does it depend on the process of natural selection understanding prime numbers. The mindless, uncomprehending process of natural selection can exploit this important property of some numbers without having to understand it at all. For another example: neither bees nor Mother Nature need to understand the geometry that declares the hexagon the ideal shape for cells in a honeycomb.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett's Book Intuition Pumps