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Darwin out en · VERB

Etymology

An allusion to Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, humorous, slang, uncommon) To remove (a person) from the gene pool when they engage in foolish, thoughtless, or reckless behavior.
   • See above. The problem (dunderheadedness) has been precisely pointed out, and the solution (darwinning out the dross) is happening as we speak. 2004 December 6, fasgnādh, “Re: PM advocates special treatment for aborigines”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
   • Let's face it, it's just not possible. A guy like that in The Bronx could never make it to the age where he could get a license. He'd be Darwinned-out before he was twelve. 1979, Gerald Rosen, The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole, A Novel, page 94:
   • I know you're not meant to cut toward yourself, and that fatal instinct should have been Darwined out by now, but it does provide a small “geometric design error” component to my injury story, a point my attorney might well use, should we decide later to sue the human body factory. 2012, Lawrence W. Baggett, In the Dark on the Sunny Side: A Memoir of an Out-of-Sight Mathematician, page 17:
   • The prisoners who'd survived, we later learned, had done so only by killing, stacking, and standing on the bodies of the ones that hadn't, which meant that nature had Darwinned out all but the meanest of the mean and the toughest of tough. 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Twenty-Seven Bones, The Most Terrifying Novel You Will Read this Year:
   • Ah, that's intent again. Selection pressure darwins out that which is not best fitted to survive, but a new mutation is by definition yet to be filtered in this way, so all bets are off :-) 2003 March 9, cquirke, “excuses, excuses, excuses...”, in alt.comp.virus (Usenet):

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Darwin Award

wikipedia: Charles Darwin