Evolutionary Perspectives on Death

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.