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Nature Invented Gears on Insect Legs, Long Before We Did

We humans thought we were pretty clever when we invented gears, imagining that they were never present on earth before that time (which was, incidentally, around 300 B.C.E. by Greek mechanics in Alexandria, Egypt.) But it turns out, a tiny three-millimeter hopping insect had us beat.

Biologists…

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