Darwin Awards - Urban legends

A Darwin Award is an honor given to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by "removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner." The prizes are named in honor of the evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, are awarded over the World Wide Web, and are frequently distributed via email. There is no monetary or material prize associated with the Darwin Award, only infamous recognition. To take the premise of the award seriously is to suppose the stupidity of the awardees to be genetically determined, arguing that nature affects behavior mo ...

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• Darwin Awards - Urban legends
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Darwin Awards - Requirements. According to Wendy Northcutt, the five requirements for a Darwin are Inability to reproduce - Nominee must be dead or sterile. A disputed issue, due to age, cloning, donation of reproductive cells, and celibacy. Should the elderly be allowed to win, their death having no impact on the gene pool? The general rule of thumb is that if the candidate no longer has the physical wherewithal to breed with a mate on an otherwise uninhabited island, they are ou ...

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Darwin Awards, Darwin Awards - Rules, Darwin Awards - Requirements, Darwin Awards - Not Darwins, Darwin Awards - Urban legends, Darwin Awards - History, Darwin Awards - Books, Darwin Awards - Movie

Read more here: » Darwin Awards: Encyclopedia II - Darwin Awards - Rules

Darwin Awards - Requirements. The five requirements for a Darwin are Inability to reproduce - Nominee must be dead or sterile. A disputed issue, due to age, cloning, donation of reproductive cells, and celibacy. Should the elderly be allowed to win, their death having no impact on the gene pool? The general rule of thumb is that if the candidate no longer has the physical wherewithal to breed with a mate on an otherwise uninhabited island, they are out of the gene pool. However, o ...

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Darwin Awards, Darwin Awards - Rules, Darwin Awards - Requirements, Darwin Awards - Not Darwins, Darwin Awards - Urban legends, Darwin Awards - History, Darwin Awards - Books, Darwin Awards - Movie

Read more here: » Darwin Awards: Encyclopedia II - Darwin Awards - Rules

Darwin Awards have circulated for a long time as emails. The Google Usenet archive shows two early mentions of the Darwin Awards, one dated 1985-08-07 Vending Machine Tipover, which wasn't mentioned on Usenet again until it was referenced in the 1990-12-07 version of the JATO Rocket Car. It lists the JATO Rocket Car urban legend that incorporated the second recorded use of the term "Darwin Award" back in 1990 and ...

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Darwin Awards, Darwin Awards - Rules, Darwin Awards - Requirements, Darwin Awards - Not Darwins, Darwin Awards - Urban legends, Darwin Awards - History, Darwin Awards - Books, Darwin Awards - Movie

Read more here: » Darwin Awards: Encyclopedia II - Darwin Awards - History

Life Imitates Art: The darwinawards.com site fails to give credit where credit is apparently due concerning the history of the Darwin Awards which originated in two fictional Darwin Awards postings on Usenet, the 1985-08-07 Vending Machine Tipover which wasn't mentioned on usenet again until it was referenced in the 1990-12-07 version of the JATO Rocket Car. It lists the JATO Rocket Car urban legend that incorporated the second recorded use of the term "Darwin Award" back in 1990 and was very widely distributed in 1995-1997 as merely a 1995 ...

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Darwin Awards, Darwin Awards - Rules, Darwin Awards - Requirements, Darwin Awards - Not Darwins, Darwin Awards - Urban legends, Darwin Awards - History, Darwin Awards - Books, Darwin Awards - Movie

Read more here: » Darwin Awards: Encyclopedia II - Darwin Awards - History