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Comment on Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part?
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 19 hours agoLooks like kidneys in vertebrates have been around for close to 400 million years, while legumes only 60 million
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Kidney beans are thought to have originated about 8000 years ago, so the organ is definitely older.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Wow! By several orders of magnitude too. I knew plants came later, but this is a pretty extreme example.