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Rough-and-tumble play provided one of the paradigmatic examples of the appli- tion of ethological methods, back in the 1970's. Since then, a modest number of - searchers have developed our knowledge of this kind of activity, using a variety of methods, and addressing some quite fundamental questions about age changes, sex diff- ences, nature and function of behaviour. In this chapter I will review work on this topic, mentioning particularly the interest in comparing results from different informants and different methods of investigation. Briefly, rough-and-tumble play (or R&T for short) refers to a cluster of behaviours whose core is rough but playful wrestling and tumbling on the ground; and whose general characteristic is that the behaviours seem to be agonistic but in a non-serious, playful c- text. The varieties of R&T, and the detailed differences between rough-and-tumble play and real fighting, will be discussed later. 2. A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESEARCH ON R&T In his pioneering work on human play, Groos (1901) described many kinds of rough-and-tumble play. However, R&T was virtually an ignored topic from then until the late 1960's. There was, of course, a flowering of observational research on children in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in North America; but this research had a strong practical o- entation, and lacked the cross-species perspective and evolutionary orientation present in Groos' work.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: New Aspects of Human Ethology
• Author: Klaus Atzwanger, Karl Grammer, Katrin Schäfer, Alain Schmitt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 239
• EAN: 9781475785791
• ISBN: 1475785798
• ID: 02181803
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Weight: 493 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. March 2013

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