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The **Darwin Award** is a sarcastic negative award. It has been used since 1994 to report on people who have barely escaped death, commit fatal accidents or make themselves infertile, and show a special degree of stupidity, according to the organisers of the award. The name refers to Charles Darwin, the discoverer of "natural selection". Behind this is the idea that an unfit individual does his kind "a favor" if it prevents the further spread of his own genetic material.