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I do realize this is not how biological evolution works. Organisms do not consciously change their genes. But genes do randomly mutate by various mechanisms and once in a great while there's a mutation that makes the organism slightly more likely to pass his genes on to future generations.
I'm not sure if spiciness is a defense to prevent animals from consuming, a delicious adaptation that encourages us to grow them ourselves, or a man made selection feature like those tiny yapper dogs.