Every Year, the Dubious Posthumous Honour of the Darwin Award

Multiple Choice

Every year, the dubious posthumous honour of the Darwin Award is bestowed on people who "improve the human gene pool by accidentally killing themselves in really stupid ways." In 2002, for example, a man used a chainsaw to open a grenade because he wanted to make firecrackers; instead, the grenade exploded. To which of Darwin's principles are the Darwin Awards in homage?

A) natural selection
B) adaptation
C) evolutionary noise
D) mutation
E) polygenic transmission