New Aspects of Human Ethology

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 revie...