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"A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek "honor" named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, given to people who seem to improve the human gene pool by accidentally killing or sterilizing themselves during a foolish or careless mistake."
By having the awards, the act that receives the awards is clearly idiotic. I think that the Darwin Awards are just a way of publicizing the stupidity of certain activities and furthermore benefiting...
He won The Royal Medal (1853), The Wallaston Medal (1859), The Copley Medal (1864) - ALJ ;) The royal medal is awarded to three people annually by the Royal Society. The Copley medal is also awarded...
The Darwin Awards are awarded to people who killed themselves (or rendered themselves sterile) in particularly stupid ways, thus improving the gene pool.