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The banana apocalypse is near, but biologists might have found a key to their survival (phys.org)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Good point. The banana industry is absolutely gargantuan (and pretty awful, but that’s an aside) so it may be that their logistics require the fruit to be a certain size, weight, shape, etc for efficiency.