Awareness of Death

Certainty Style Key

Certainty styling is being phased out topic by topic.

Hover over keys for definitions:
True   Likely   Speculative
Human Uniqueness Compared to "Great Apes": 
Relative Difference
MOCA Domain: 
MOCA Topic Authors: 

Humans have the ceremony of death regardless of cultural difference. Humans drop tears in front of the corpus. We hardly discovered this kind of behavior in the other animals. When did it start? The archaeological evidence of Neanderthal man shows the burial of their dead that could be ritual. The flower pollens could be a ritual burials. In some cases Neanderthal burials include bones and tools. The living animals also show the special behavior to the corpus. Chimpanzees, especially in a certain community in Guinea, keep the corpus of her dead infant for a long time.

Related MOCA Topics
Referenced By:
Topic Certainty
Mind-Altering Drug Use Likely
Optimism Bias True

References

  1. Tool use for corpse cleaning in chimpanzees, van Leeuwen, Edwin J. C., Cronin Katherine A., and Haun Daniel B. M. , Scientific Reports, 2017/03/13, Volume 7, p.44091 - , (2017)
  2. Chimpanzees' responses to the dead body of a 9-year-old group member., van Leeuwen, Edwin J. C., Mulenga Innocent Chitalu, Bodamer Mark D., and Cronin Katherine A. , Am J Primatol, 2016 May 9, (2016)
  3. Wild American crows gather around their dead to learn about danger, Swift, K., and Marzluff J. , Animal Behaviour, 11/2015, Volume 109, p.187-197, (2015)