[Alter Kaker]

Nutritionally they are regarded as nuts, and are nutritionally classified in the meat group.

I can't believe you're making me argue that peanuts are not meat. My suggestion: go get a peanut plant. Look at it. The peanuts are encased in pods. It developes from a singal carpel. That makes it a legume, by definition. This is not a complicated concept. Take Botany 101. Grocers may refer to peanuts as nuts, but they're grocers, not botanists, and they're wrong.

A 2,000,000 year old modern horse (Equus stenonis) was believed to have been found in Italy.

Wrong. Equus stenonis was not modern (modern horses are Equus caballus), but an earlier species. It was likely a distant ancestor of modern horses, but it was not a modern horse by any stretch of the imagination.

[sittnick]

I can't believe you're making me argue that peanuts are not meat. My suggestion: go get a peanut plant. . . . but they're grocers, not botanists, and they're wrong.

I cannot believe that you think that botanical definitions are the only way to define things. A botanical definition is only one way to define things. Many times it is not the most practical. Grocers are not wrong when they call peanuts nuts or tomatoes vegetables. Taxonomy and other classifications are artificial constructs, made by man to help order things. They can mean different things in different contexts just as easily as a mile is different in the water than on the land or a pint in the UK rather than the US. And yes, nutritionally, peanuts, nuts and legumes are in the meat category. Perhaps you'd like to take it up with the USDA.



Wrong. Equus stenonis was not modern (modern horses are Equus caballus), but an earlier species. [ . . .]it was not a modern horse by any stretch of the imagination.

Not the last word, but wikipedia ("evolution of horses entry") disagrees with you. The fact is, all of those fossils that are put in the evolutionary chain are not necessrily related to the modern horse. You cannot scientifically say, "a is older than b, a has some resemblance to b, therefore b came from a". In any event, modern horses may well have been around 50,000 years ago. The existence of similar looking but different species tells us nothing of what might have been around that simply has not been found yet.