Suicide is an evolved trait consistent with Hamilton's rule.
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The retrieved literature notes that inclusive fitness and evolutionary hypotheses have been proposed to examine human suicide as potentially adaptive, but the sources provide only partial theoretical discussions rather than settling the claim definitively.
W.D. Hamilton’s Inclusive Fitness Theory explains the conditions that favor the emergence and maintenance of social cooperation. Today we know that these include direct and indirect benefits an agent obtains by its actions, and through interactions with kin and with genetically unrelated individuals. That is, in addition to kin-selection, assortation or homophily, and social synergies drive the evolution of cooperation. An Extended Inclusive Fitness Theory (EIFT) synthesizes the natural selection forces acting on biological evolution and on human economic interactions by assuming that natural selection driven by inclusive fitness produces agents with utility functions that exploit assortation and synergistic opportunities. This formulation allows to estimate sustainable cost/benefit threshold ratios of cooperation among organisms and/or economic agents, using existent analytical tools, illuminating our understanding of the dynamic nature of society, the evolution of cooperation among kin and non-kin, inter-specific cooperation, co-evolution, symbioses, division of labor and social synergies. EIFT helps to promote an interdisciplinary cross fertilization of the understanding of synergy by, for example, allowing to describe the role for division of labor in the emergence of social synergies, providing an integrated framework for the study of both, biological evolution of social behavior and economic market dynamics. Another example is a bio-economic understanding of the motivations of terrorists, which identifies different forms of terrorism.
Frontiers | Choosing Death Over Survival: A Need to Identify Evolutionary Mechanisms Underlying Human Suicide
#### Evolutionary Psychology
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## CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article
Front. Psychol., 03 November 2021
Sec. Evolutionary Psychology
Volume 12 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689022
# Choosing Death Over Survival: A Need to Identify Evolutionary Mechanisms Underlying Human Suicide
- DCDiya Chatterjee
- RRRishabh Rai *
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
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The act of killing self contradicts the central purpose of human evolution, that is, survival and propagation of one’s genetic material. Yet, it continues to be one of the leading causes of human death. A handful of theories in the realm of evolutionary psychology have attempted to explain human suicide. The current article analyses the major components of certain prominent viewpoints, namely, Inclusive fitness, Bargaining model, Pain-Brain model, Psychological aposematism, and few other perspectives. The article argues that relatively more weighta
An Evolutionary Hypothesis of Suicide: Why it Could be Biologically Adaptive and is so Prevalent in Certain Occupations - Midori Tanaka, Dennis K. Kinney, 2011
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