The Evolution of Playfulness, Play and Play-Like Phenomena in Relation to Sexual Selection

The Evolution of Playfulness, Play and Play-Like Phenomena in Relation to Sexual Selection

By conceptualizing Sexual Selection, Darwin showed a way to analyze intra-specific individual differences within an evolutionary perspective. Interestingly, Sexual Selection is often used to investigate the origins of sports, arts, humor, religion and other phenomena that, in several languages, are...

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Main Authors: Yago Luksevicius Moraes, Jaroslava Varella Valentova, Marco Antonio Correa Varella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
play
gaming
playfulness
sexual selection
mental mechanisms
human evolution
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.925842/full

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