@article{ref1,
title="The lure of death: suicide and human evolution",
journal="Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences",
year="2018",
author="Humphrey, Nicholas",
volume="373",
number="1754",
pages="e269-e269",
abstract="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'.<br><br>© 2018 The Author(s).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0962-8436",
doi="10.1098/rstb.2017.0269",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0269"
}