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For example, Why do onions make us cry? Well, when you cut an onion, sulfur-containing compounds within the onion combine and irritate your eyes causing them to tear. Nature did it like that so that predators wouldn't eat them. Why add coffee to beef gravy? Because the flavor compounds that form when you brown meat are the exact same flavor compounds that form when you roast coffee. And why shouldn't you marinate your steaks overnight? Because by the time the inside gets tender, the outside is mushy.


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-- Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion pg182
So there.
I did not want to start a discussion. I am neither an expert in evolution or biology nor a native english speaker, so one way or the other I would lose :-P
Perhaps it would be better to say that the release of sulphur is adaptive for the onion because...