Why not square, triangle or circle?
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Keeping it simple, it’s actually because they make a bunch of round shapes but when you pack round things together they pack into the lowest energy state which is a hexagon on a 2d plane.
Fun fact though that other comments have missed though. Bee honeycombs aren’t actually Hexagons, they are Rhombic Dodecahedrons, a remarkably stable 12 sides shape that looks like a hexagon when cut in half. It is the shape that spheres fall into when pressed together. It’s my favorite shape also.
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