How Nature Finds the Short Cut

Nature has been using mathematical short cuts to solve problems long before we arrived. Many of laws of physics are based on nature always finding a short cut. The honey bee found the hexagonal cells in its hive is more efficient than squares or triangles because it doesn't need as much wax, and bees that make hexagons survive better. But what's the lesson we should take away from the slime mould story? Because one could imagine,. you know, humans are stupider than slime mould, which i think we would agree on most dimensions is probably nottrul.