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Nature's most perfect food - bananas?
Sunday, 01 March 1998

by Sally Grande

The following is an amusing anecdote from Richard Dawkins' book, Climbing Mount Improbable, which explains how bananas exist with unusual anthropomorphic flair!

Note that the banana:

  1. Is shaped for the human hand
  2. Has a non-slip surface
  3. Has outward indicators of inward contents (green = too early, yellow = just right, black = too late)
  4. Has a tab for the removal of the wrapper
  5. Is perforated on wrapper
  6. Biodegradable wrapper
  7. Is shaped for the mouth
  8. Has a point at top for ease of entry
  9. Is pleasing to taste buds
  10. Is curved towards the face to make eating process easy

 

While bananas seem to have evolved for primates, the same cannot be said for all fruits. Raspberries, for example, must have evolved for birds -- thorns deter mammals.


From March/April '98 Lifelines