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22 Works 4,834 Members 54 Reviews

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Series

Works by Wendy Northcutt

The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action (2000) 1,831 copies, 20 reviews
The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection (2001) 1,026 copies, 6 reviews
The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design (2006) 472 copies, 11 reviews
The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction (2010) 235 copies, 5 reviews
The Darwin Awards: Felonious Failures (2005) 51 copies, 1 review
The Darwin Awards omnibus (2007) 22 copies, 1 review
ELS PREMIS DARWIN (2002) 4 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
Northcutt, Wendy
Birthdate
1963-09-17
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Education
University of California, Berkeley (molecular biology)
Occupations
website founder
neuroscientist
freelance webmaster
Organizations
University of Stanford
Short biography
Creator of the Darwinawards.com website and author of five books on the Darwin Awards

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Reviews

Pretty much more of the same: entertaining and mind-boggling stories of how people have removed themselves from the gene pool (or have gone very close to doing so.) Is it surprising how many of the stories involve the male of the species? Probably not. Appendix A "Survival Tips" is full of good advice.
 
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buttsy1 | 4 other reviews | Oct 12, 2024 |
Good for a few laughs, which are occasionally in short supply in my world....
 
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Mark_Feltskog | 19 other reviews | Dec 23, 2023 |
The usual selection of irresponsible idiots.
 
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ritaer | 10 other reviews | Oct 3, 2023 |
Meh. Might be ok if you read a few pages and set it down again over and over. As a book it just doesn't hang together despite the ample amounts of filler. The topic is the perfect source of interesting blog posts or online reading, but doesn't work in this format. Maybe teh first one was better, but I'd skip 'em both and check out the website instead.
 
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furicle | 5 other reviews | Aug 5, 2023 |

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Statistics

Works
22
Members
4,834
Popularity
#5,195
Rating
½ 3.4
Reviews
54
ISBNs
103
Languages
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