Evolutionary Perspectives on Death

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shackelford, Todd K. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zeigler-Hill, Virgil (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Evolutionary Psychology,
• Subjects: Experiential research.; Psychology Research.

The latest volume in this multidisciplinary series on key topics in evolutionary studies, Evolutionary Perspectives on Death provides an evolutionary analysis of mortality and the consideration of death. Bringing together noted experts from a variety of fields, the books emanate from conferences hel...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: The Role of Death in Life: Exploring the Interface between Terror Management Theory and Evolutionary Psychology
• Chapter 2: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Loss of a Twin
• Chapter 3: Beyond the Search for Suigiston: How Evolution Offers Oxygen for Suicidology
• Chapter 4: Animacy and Mortality Salience: New Directions for the Adaptive Memory Literature
• Chapter 5: Nonhuman Primate Responses to Death
• Chapter 6: Did Human Reality Denial Breach the Evolutionary Psychological Barrier of Mortality Salience? A Theory That Can Explain Many Unusual Features of Human Origins
• Chapter 7: Death in Literature
• Chapter 8: Last Moments: Witnessing and Representing the Death of Pets
• Chapter 9: The Evolution of American Perspectives Concerning Treatment of the Dead and the Role of Human Decomposition Facilities.