Or did both come from something else? Maybe “kid knee” (small and bent) or, more realistically, it’s something borrowed from another language like Latin or French.
Or did both come from something else? Maybe “kid knee” (small and bent) or, more realistically, it’s something borrowed from another language like Latin or French.
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?
Looks like kidneys in vertebrates have been around for close to 400 million years, while legumes only 60 million
Kidney beans are thought to have originated about 8000 years ago, so the organ is definitely older.
Wow! By several orders of magnitude too. I knew plants came later, but this is a pretty extreme example.
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