What is the evolutionary purpose of suicide?
What is the evolutionary purpose of suicide?
Owen Jones
Samuel Turner
It's just a malfunction of the brain.
You should be familiar with that.
Samuel Torres
citation needed.
Noah Collins
Weak people die out. It's a good method of natural selection, since our science can cure a lot of stuff.
Eli Peterson
suicide is a form of manipulation that gives you advantage in certain situations
imagine a case in which a man leaves a woman with children
woman with suicide genes is open about her suicide and makes the man stay (usually) since humans are empathetic
therefore the suicide genes get passed on and females with these genes have it easier to survive and upbring their offspring
tldr suicide is an exploitation of empathy that gives you advantage in many situations
Logan Barnes
Saving others resources.
Jordan Hughes
Not everything has an evolutionary purpose. The human ability to reason and form abstractions generates new behaviors.
Kayden Torres
>purpose
Teleology belongs on
Gabriel Bailey
I think it can by explained by memetics. I know memetics isn't an actual science, but still I like the idea.
Joshua Fisher
Obviously it's highly unlikely suicide is advantageous to genes, it's almost certainly a byproduct of higher brain function