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History and rules the eponym of these awards is the charles darwin, known for his theories of natural selection and evolution. February 12 was the 200th anniversary of his birth and november 24 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of his masterwork, a book that remains controversial to this. Like darwin s finches, humans are filling the new islands evolutionary niches created by our civilization, and our mutations are being tuned by each selflimiting step we take. The darwin awards are a comedic honor given to individuals who kill or sterilize themselves in a extraordinarily idiotic manner, thus removing themselves from the gene pool and through that.
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