Chilis have become the most extensively grown spice around the globe, thriving in various regions from their origins in the Americas to parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. What led to the development of their unique, fiery characteristics? Additionally, what prompted us to embrace and enjoy that spicy kick?
Show
Eons
Episode
S05E10
Air Date
Apr 07, 2021
Season 5 Episodes
S05E01
What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?
S05E02
The Reign of the Hell Ants
S05E03
The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
S05E04
When We First Talked
S05E05
The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles
S05E06
The Genes We Lost Along the Way
S05E07
Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
S05E08
How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
S05E09
How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
S05E10
How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
S05E11
How To Survive the Little Ice Age
S05E12
When Crocs Thrived in the Seas
S05E13
When Trees Took Over the World
S05E14
How Weasels Got Skinny
S05E15
Where Are All The Squid Fossils?
S05E16
Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
S05E17
The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
S05E18
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
S05E19
Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
S05E20
How the Starfish Got Its Arms
S05E21
The Creature That Stumped Darwin
S05E22
How Pollination Got Going Twice
S05E23
How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate
S05E24
How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
S05E25
When Mammals Only Went Out At Night
S05E26
How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean
S05E27
How Dinosaurs Coupled Up
S05E28
When It Was Too Hot for Leaves
S05E29
Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
S05E30
The Fossil Record In Your Mouth
S05E31
When Pterosaurs Walked