The Strange History of Bananas
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In this video, we look at the surprising and mysterious history behind what may very well be the world's favorite fruit. Find us here too! Patreon: www.Patreon.com/Fireoflearning Lucinox – Our Science Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM2dfLR3BR0CHuePEDtxAZw The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Download available at incompetech.com Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I (Allegro), BWV 1049 [orig. by JS Bach] Beijaflor Heavy Heart These songs provided by the YouTube audio library Spanish Rose - Chris Haugen Island Coconuts – Aaron Kenny Si Senorita – Chris Haugen Sources and Further Reading can be viewed by the public here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/93083778?pr=true Picture Attributions By Wilfredor - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22552194 By Photo by David J. Stang - source: David Stang. First published at ZipcodeZoo.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61220134 By Warut Roonguthai - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1867879 By Mkumaresa - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52114522 By Pavljenko - Own work using:Map first shown in Bellwood et al. (2011) and taken from Benton et al. (2012), CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116424449 By Lalit Gajjer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51450186 By Anton Croos - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17661753 By Soman - Original photo taken by Soman Copyrighted material edited out by Jasy_jatere, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3471560 By Pkraemer - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81719611 By Original uploader was Henrygb at en.wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3970404 By Saga70 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22059061 By Thamizhpparithi Maari - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38419228 By കാക്കര - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23555242 By © Moheen Reeyad, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73980179 By Erasmus Kamugisha - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102252344 By Tris T7 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80644251 By Vitaium - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114468680 By Forest and Kim Starr - starr-130116-1444-Musa_x_paradisiaca-Ice_Cream_fruit-Waihee-Maui, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61610928 By Dinesh Valke from Thane, India - Musa paradisiaca, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51591201 By Aseel zm - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89651175 By Omar Hoftun - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26464576
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