| Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2000 : 3 November 2000 |
Hot peppers are at the pinnacle of plant evolution. Stay-at-home mammals don't care to eat hot peppers, but birds don't taste the hotness so they spread pepper seeds far and wide. Meanwhile, we bird-brained humans enjoy food that hurts, so we cultivate more pepper plants. What perfect adaption! It sure beats having a brain.
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