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From: stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens)
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<3e2ieu$qr0@spider.lloyd.com> Charles Ferris <cferris@spider.lloyd.com> writes:

>It has been proven that the more complex an organism is, the more it
>will "play."  

>> Do you have any references to the above?  It sounds interesting...
>> 
>> --Titus

>I think that I heard it on a Nature series program on PBS.  I think 
>it was actually a series of programs dedicated to deciphering animal
>play.  I don't quite remeber when I saw it, though.


Gregory Bateson, in "Steps to an Ecology of the Mind," dedicates sections
to humans and animal "play" and games.

Greg Stevens
stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu

>Charles

