Playing the innovation game

Send us a textBirds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it….. Well, I’m not sure about the last one but someone somewhere has probably done some research on the topic. We humans certainly do it, especially when we’re young. I’m not talking about falling in love but about extending Cole Porter’s observations to a different world, something up there in terms of importance — playing.Play is a basic animal behaviour and it’s worth asking the evolutionary psychology question of why? Wasting ...