%0 Journal Article %J Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B %D 2018 %T The Lure of Death: Suicide and Human Evolution %A Humphrey, N %K Consciousness %K Human evolution %K Suicide %X

At some point in evolutionary history, human beings came to understand, as no nonhuman 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.

%B Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B %V 373 %8 09/2018 %G eng %U https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.0269 %N 1754 %R 10.1098/rstb.2017.0269