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

Examines the role of playfulness in animal and human development, highlighting its links to creativity and, in turn, to innovation.

Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection br

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck’s Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufactur

Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which w