Natural Selection Lyrics - Singles - Horrible Histories

Mmmm yeah. 

Mmmm yeah. 

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! 

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! 

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! 

On the Isles of Galapagos 

I noted the giant tortoise 

Had interesting shells 

And I rode on them as well 

Iguanas land and swimming 

Meant my new theory was winning 

It all led in the direction 

Of natural selection. 

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! 

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 detec-tion 

Of natural selection! 

Natural selection!