Hi, so I was reading a post that said peppers were hot to protect themselves from bacteria and stuff like that, but why, in this example, is hotness and not, let’s say, poison or bad taste or something else and how does that process happen? Like does the organism decide it would be better to be spicy than to be poisonous? How does it “decide” that? And how does it happen?
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It doesn’t. It’s completely random, literally **completely random**, but then the ones that don’t defend themselves get eaten so we only see the ones that did.
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