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The Evolution of Rough and Tumble Play in Primates
Rough and tumble play is pretty common in species where males are bigger and more aggressive than females. Does this show up in primates as well? Juvenile primates? Yeah, rough and tumble play has a long evolutionary history of that. If you give toys, sex-typical toys, the human-sex-typical a doll in a truck, big dump truck that they can play with, you do see preferences.