The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits - Paperback

by Gordon M. Burghardt (Author), Brian Sutton-Smith (Foreword by)

A scientist examines the origins and evolutionary significance of play in humans and animals.

Author Biography

Gordon Burghardt is Alumni Distinguished Professor in Psychology and in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. He is a coeditor of The Cognitive Animal (MIT Press, 2002), past president of the Animal Behavior Society, and editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology.