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If you spend any time researching play at all, you'll find that's pretty much a universal view among scientists who study it. It's essential training and learni
by guerrilla 4y ago
If you spend any time researching play at all, you'll find that's pretty much a universal view among scientists who study it. It's essential training and learning for survival. Love Graeber, RIP, but if that's something he claimed then he's unfortunately off on that one.
- abfan1127 4y agosorry, the universal rule is play isn't important, or the universal rule is play is important? Also, do you have some leads on sources? I'd be interested on reading up on this.
- guerrilla 4y agoI don't understand your first question... I think this[1] would be your definitive resources but if you can just search for "evolution of play" then you'll find a lot of stuff. Wikipedia has a hodgepodge of perspectives in section on the purpose of play [2] but you might be better off tracking down those citations. 1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-handbook-of-play/evolution-of-play/9EAFEDC059FB72E575809219BDB444E0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-handbook-... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(activity)#Development_and_learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(activity)#Development_an...