NYTimes.com: A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies

SCIENCE   | September 21, 2010
 
A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies

By JAMES GORMAN
Turning homegrown habaneros into hot sauce is cause to celebrate the human capacity to enjoy such tasty pain. 
  
 

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 a friend of mine commented:

I liked the line

 

"Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce."

 

So much for tool use