The Darwin Awards countdown to extinction /
Wendy Northcutt.
- New York : Plume, c2011, c2010.
- xxi, 310 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
"A Plume book." "First Plume printing, November 2011."--T.p. verso. "Previously published in a Dutton edition"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Features examples of people whose lack of common sense resulted in their demise, in a tribute to how the evolutionary process is improved when individuals of questionable intelligence accidentally remove themselves from the gene pool.