The Evolutionary Theory Of Suicide - 3173 Words

The Evolutionary Cause of Suicide Seth Baker Shippensburg University Abstract Most knowledge that doesn’t seem to be taught but inherently known comes from passed down genetically from generation to generation. One of which is suicide, which does not seem like something that would help the survival of the people who pass it down but it may be about the greater good. In this paper I discuss the evolutionary benefits of suicide for the human population. These include such things as strengthening the will to live in those that survive less competition for resources, and support from those who went through the suffering, and that maybe suicide is a remnant of the survival of the fittest biological drive that propelled humans foreward. In this literature review the following will be discussed, is suicide an evolutionary trait, what â€Å"good† it might have done for the human race, and are the benefits still viable or has it become a vestigial evolutionary characteristic. 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