Comment on Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part?

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• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To save y’all a click, the organ came first, sometime in the 14th century, as a mix of the words for womb and egg. It wasn’t until the 16th century that we see the first recorded use of kidney bean, so the name of the bean references the shape of the organ.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s a pretty solid answer from one perspective. However that still leaves me wondering what the answer would be from an evolutionary perspective. Did early sea creatures already have kidneys?

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks like kidneys in vertebrates have been around for close to 400 million years, while legumes only 60 million

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      • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Kidney beans are thought to have originated about 8000 years ago, so the organ is definitely older.

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      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        🫡

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, the body part

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• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  so womb egg. Interesting.

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