[Alter Kaker]

The fossil record, even from 3,000 years ago is far from complete,

I suggest you find a subject you know something about, and argue that. Your posts are inane in the extreme. For one, there really aren't fossils from 3kya -- there are intact and nearly intact human and animal remains. To pretend that we don't know anything about what large mammals were alive within the recent realm of recorded history suggests you're talking out of your ass. Equines weren't rare 3kya, and we know a heck of a lot about their development from a huge variety of sources. Those include skeletons, yokes, bits, chariots, written records, artistic depictions, saddles, and probably about a thousand other kinds of sources I'm forgetting to include. Horses were domesticated in just that part of the world where we do have excellent historical information. If you still think that anatomically modern horses evolved 2mya, you're just being deliberately obtuse.

The root of the peanut is edible, while the fruit of other legumes are edible.

Huh? Peanut roots aren't edible. The edible part of the peanut is the fruit (which does grow underground). If you want to try to eat peanut roots, you can try to prove me wrong, but I doubt they taste very good. In any event, edibility has nothing to do with the plant and everything to do with human digestion.

Peas are green and grow in soft pods. Peanuts are light brown and grow in harder shells.

I'm sorry, do you have a point? Is your time best served by explaining to me that peas are, in fact, green? Or are you still insisting that peanuts are meat?

[sittnick]

To pretend that we don't know anything about what large mammals were alive within the recent realm of recorded history suggests you're talking out of your ass.

I simply stated that we do not know all of the species that were around 3,000 years ago. Knowing some, knowing lots, and knowing all are different things. Lets see, "begging the question", "post hoc ergo propter hoc" and now at least the second "straw man". Trying to hit for the cycle on logical fallacies?

Huh? Peanut roots aren't edible. The edible part of the peanut is the fruit (which does grow underground).

Of course, you just answered your own earlier question about how peanuts are different from [other] legumes. The fruit grows underground! And of course peanuts are nutritionally regarded as meat.

In any event, edibility has nothing to do with the plant and everything to do with human digestion.

The reason that something is or isn't edible by humans is because there has to be something different in the object consumed. So of course it says lots about how peas and peanuts are different.