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The darwin awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it in a spectacular manner. These special individuals have contributed to human evolution, by dying in the stupidest ways possible and removing themselves from the gene pool. Darwin s community of correspondentswhich included scientists, cattle breeders, explorers, and government officialswas important but, first and foremost, the story of the origin of species is the story of charles darwin s research and writing. Survival of the fittest wendy northcutt 9780452285729. Evolution in action darwin awards plume books online books in format pdf.
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