The Darwin Awards VI : countdown to extinction / Wendy Northcutt
- Bib ID:
- 7286959
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Northcutt, Wendy, author
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- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Description:
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- Camberwell, Victoria : Penguin Group (Australia), 2010
- ©2010
- 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustration.
- ISBN:
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- 1742531660 (EPUB : :)
- 9781742531663 (EPUB : :)
- Summary:
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(The countdown has begun . . . ) What distinguishes humans from baser animals is our higher intelligence. This is because most humans know to think twice before headbutting a coconut or biting down on a live wire. Intelligent individuals generally know not to use a mattress pad as a floatation device, or to kitesurf in a hurricane. Darwin Award winners, however, lack this basic common sense. Named for the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards honour those who help natural selection by taking a swan dive into the shallow end of the gene pool. From attaching a five-horsepower engine to a barstool, to hammering a metal hook into an explosive device, to using a Taser to treat a snake bite, The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction show that the countdown (to human extinction) is well underway - and we won't exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. Illustrated and featuring all-new tales of the marvellously macabre, The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction chronicles humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder and prove that intelligence is not as common among humans as we'd like to think.
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- Imprint: e-penguin.
- Includes index.
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- Also Titled:
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- Darwin Awards 6
- Darwin Awards six
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- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- 1817
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- 1817
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