by Wendy Northcutt · RBA Libros · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479018238
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«Los premios Darwin» is the humor book by Wendy Northcutt, published by RBA Libros in 2002 in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
The book collects cases of people who, through easily avoidable mistakes, die or are left incapacitated and, according to the logic of the award, improve the human gene pool. It includes examples such as the terrorist who opens a letter bomb returned for insufficient postage or the man who looks inside a gas can with a lighter.
It is the first volume in the «Darwin Awards» series; in Spain it was published as number 3 of the «Otros no ficción» collection. Translation by Jesús Pardo.
For adult readers who enjoy black humor and anecdotes about human errors with extreme consequences.
The Darwin Awards are a rhetorical tongue-in-cheek honor that originated in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized by their own actions.
