The Darwin Award is a virtual joke award for particularly impressive evolutionary gambits. To be awarded it, you need to die in the most ridiculous way possible, or at least lose the ability to reproduce, thereby saving our gene pool from its desperate recklessness - or from its extreme stupidity. American Wendy Northcutt is the “chronicler” of the Darwin Award. Many years ago, after learning about this natural phenomenon, she began documenting the stories of the winners, and subsequently created the famous website www.DarwinAwards.com. Letters about the adventures of worthy candidates for the award poured in from all over the world. The most striking stories are collected in this book, which clearly demonstrates that the evolution of our species is characterized by a merciless sense of humor.