William Morse  wrote:

> I have nothing but praise for anything associated with Mexican food (we
> routinely add jalapenos to almost everything we cook), but I thought some
> of the credit for developing the compounds that make hot peppers hot has
> to go to natural selection by pepper plants for seed dispersal by birds
> rather than mammals - birds don't find the compounds irritating while
> mammals do.

JE:-
If mammals find hot peppers irritating
then surely this indicates, from an
evolutionary nutritional perspective ,
that mammals should not eat them?

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edser{at}tpg.com.au
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