Default wrote on 16 Oct 2009 20:36:42 GMT:

>> On 16-Oct-2009, "Ophelia" > wrote:
>>
> >> Your bananas have hide and hair????
> >>
> >>
>>
>> must be an heirloom variety 8-)

> Wild ones!

> Reminds me of thing I read about a creationist who used the
> banana to "prove" that evolution was bunk because such a
> perfect fruit as the banana could never have evolved
> naturally. Well, he was right of course, but for the wrong
> reason. The banana we know is the result of thousands of years
> of cultivation.

> Wild bananas look like:

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:In...-type_banana.j
> pg>

> Small, pithy, and full of hard seeds.

Careful, the monoclonal bananas that we eat are endangered simply
because they don't evolve easily. There are a variety of other bananas
available in tropical regions and they are not all small, pithy and
seedy. I nostalgically remember the red bananas I had in Hawaii.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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