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The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool

by Wendy Northcutt
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Overview

The latest installment of the hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon-more than 1.5 million copies sold!

New York Times bestselling author Wendy Northcutt is back, asking, 'Have we evolved at all'? The answer: Not all of us.

What crazy cocktail of DNA leads Homo sapiens to do pull-ups off the edge of a seventh-floor balcony or wrap their lips around a paintball gun and pull the trigger? How about offering a beer to a bear or self-testing a Taser? Why not go joyriding in a shopping cart strapped to an SUV or jump a drawbridge on a bicycle?

Fully illustrated with over a hundred new jaw-dropping and side-splitting feats of stupidity-and including science essays by guest writers and answers to FAQs about evolution in action-The Darwin Awards Next Evolution continues the tradition of honoring the victims of appallingly poor survival instinct who selflessly improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.

Synopsis

The latest installment of the hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon-more than 1.5 million copies sold!

New York Times bestselling author Wendy Northcutt is back, asking, "Have we evolved at all?" The answer: Not all of us.

What crazy cocktail of DNA leads Homo sapiens to do pull-ups off the edge of a seventh-floor balcony or wrap their lips around a paintball gun and pull the trigger? How about offering a beer to a bear or self-testing a Taser? Why not go joyriding in a shopping cart strapped to an SUV or jump a drawbridge on a bicycle?

Fully illustrated with over a hundred new jaw-dropping and side-splitting feats of stupidity-and including science essays by guest writers and answers to FAQs about evolution in action-The Darwin Awards Next Evolution continues the tradition of honoring the victims of appallingly poor survival instinct who selflessly improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.

About the Author, Wendy Northcutt

Wendy Northcutt is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology. She began collecting the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993 and founded www.DarwinAwards.com soon thereafter. She is the author of the international bestsellers The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection, The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest, and The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design.

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Book Details

Published
October 1, 2009
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA)
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780452295636

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