The Lure of Death : Suicide and human evolution

作者: Nicholas Humphrey

DOI: 10.1098/RSTB.2017.0269

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

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