Comments on: Pity the Banana: A Sexless Fruit at Risk http://ohfortheloveofscience.com/2008/10/18/pity-the-banana-a-sexless-fruit-at-risk/ Science, nature, journalism and photography. Generally the latter two apply to the former two. Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: William Bunker http://ohfortheloveofscience.com/2008/10/18/pity-the-banana-a-sexless-fruit-at-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-5 William Bunker Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:42:00 +0000 http://wilkinae.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/pity-the-banana-a-sexless-fruit-at-risk/#comment-5 The problem is not probably the banana's sexlessness. The problem is more likely their cultivation practice, which has caused their enemies to accumulate. That is an 8 > 9 problem. The 10? Let's make a great new banana. So the banana doesn't have sex. It's the egg of a tree. Let's write a codon or two. It'll be better and it will teach us about writing a codon or two for mankind, coming 2012-13.<br/><br/>We need to evolve without relying on sex. Sex is a slightly involuntary system which is socially expensive and ineffective at protecting or advancing dense and large populations. It'll only divide us.<br/><br/>There is something greater than sex. The problem is not probably the banana's sexlessness. The problem is more likely their cultivation practice, which has caused their enemies to accumulate. That is an 8 > 9 problem. The 10? Let's make a great new banana. So the banana doesn't have sex. It's the egg of a tree. Let's write a codon or two. It'll be better and it will teach us about writing a codon or two for mankind, coming 2012-13.

We need to evolve without relying on sex. Sex is a slightly involuntary system which is socially expensive and ineffective at protecting or advancing dense and large populations. It'll only divide us.

There is something greater than sex.

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