LYRICS:

Mmmm, yeah.
Mmmm, yeah.

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People thought all animals arrived here unrelated
The world began, and then came man all perfectly created.

But then someone looked up a tree and said that monkey looks just like me.
So it really was a mystery what I’d learned in natural history.

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So I joined HMS Beagle, watched the eagle and the seagull
We studied rock and plants, flowers, trees and bees and ants

Slept on hammocks without pillows, eating rats and armadillos
Till I realised on reflec-tion. It’s natural selection! Yeah.

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Natural selection means each animal evolved
To blend with its surroundings, ch-ch-changes were involved

So birds with different foods to seek seem to have developed different beaks

And over time they’d modified - so just the fittest of them all survived.

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On the Isles of Galapagos I noted the giant tortoise
Had interesting shells and I rode on them as well.

Iguanas learned at swimming, meant my new theory was winning
It all led in the direction of natural selection.

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My findings went with outrage from the Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Church of England
And from me.

The idea that we came from ch-ch-chimps questioned my own Christianity -
But it was hard to disagree.

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Every species new mutation had a perfect explanation
It seems the worlds inception must predate common perception

And if lack of adaptation means a fatal limitation
So each creature’s imperfection over time gets a correction

Meaning animal collections grow unique means of protection
And to fail nature’s inspection means immediate rejection
Which all leads to the detection
Of natural selection!
Natural selection!