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The lure of death: suicide and human evolution

Author(s) -

Nicholas Humphrey

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753

H-Index - 272

eISSN - 1471-2970

pISSN - 0962-8436

DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2017.0269

Subject(s) - thanatology , theme (computing) , human evolution , psychology , environmental ethics , biology , evolutionary biology , history , philosophy , archaeology , computer science , operating system

At some point in evolutionary history, human beings came to understand, as no non-human animals do, that death brings to an end a person's bodily and mental presence in the world. A potentially devastating consequence was that individuals, seeking to escape physical or mental pain, might choose to kill themselves.This article is part of the theme issue 'Evolutionary thanatology: impacts of the dead on the living in humans and other animals'.

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