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The Evolution of Suicidal Behavior
Deckard Field: We scour the ethnographic record for every example of suicidal behavior. These records are not systematic, so they don't allow us to estimate rates of lethal versus non-lethal behavior or anything like that. He says if men ancestrally actually took riskier engaged in riskier kinds of suicidal behavior, that would have led to their deaths. The problem is it's an incredibly stigmatized behavior, and so it's incredibly difficult to study this.