Darwin out

English Alternative forms en darwin out Etymology An allusion to Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Verb *,** en slang humorous somewhat derogatory somewhat uncommon To remove (a person) from the gene pool when they engage in foolish, thoughtless or reckless behavior. en 1979 The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole, A Novel Gerald Rosen 94 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. en March 9, 2003 cquirke excuses, excuses, excuses... https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.virus/c/RzOkDdZMnwY/m/s4kIoMwNHYAJ alt.comp.virus 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 :-) en December 6, 2004 fasgnādh Re: PM advocates special treatment for aborigines https://groups.google.com/g/alt.atheism/c/DrpHVuE_m54/m/-p03ggHw9UkJ alt.atheism See above. The problem (dunderheadedness) has been precisely pointed out, and the solution (darwinning out the dross) is happening as we speak. en 2008 Twenty-Seven Bones, The Most Terrifying Novel You Will Read this Year Jonathan Nasaw 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. en 2012 In the Dark on the Sunny Side: A Memoir of an Out-of-Sight Mathematician Lawrence W. Baggett 17 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. See also en Darwin Award en eponyms en Death