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James O'Brien's Mystery Hour

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The Evolution of Insects

Insects were born with the ability to camouflage themselves. It would have been like a freakish genetic glitch, but it turned out to be really useful. If you're an insect and you don't look like a twig, and there's a bird flying past feeling hungry, who's it going to eat? The one that lookslike a twig or the one that doesn'tLook like a Twig. That's just evolution. I'm taking a round of applause for my first question of the year. But we've actually got time for more questions as well. We still need an answer to the question about conquers and spiders, parrots and plosives. And how

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