Amusingly, of course, today’s ‘perfectly designed’ banana is actually the inferior backup banana they introduced after the last merry game of ‘your fungal overlords crushing you like pitiful apes to punish your foolish reliance on a giant clonal monoculture’.
The ‘Gros Michel’ banana was massacred only ~60 years ago, with the Cavendish pressed into service as an emergency replacement. Now it is again time to reap the harvest…
