If we had never invented gears, but somehow had invented microscopes, we might've eventually stumbled on this insect and gotten the idea for mechanical gears from observing its legs.<p>What other things on the technology tree did we skip over and might we discover out in some insect, bird or fish?<p>We still don't know how tiny insect brains are capable of using so little energy to do so much navigation and learning+memory, right?