Integrating Tinbergen's inquiries: Mimicry and play in humans and other social mammals
Palagi, E., Scopa, C.
· 2018
★ NIFPlay Rating: 8
Rating Scale
10 Rigorous play-specific science
6–9 General biological science
5 Sound play research (uncontrolled)
1–4 Less rigorous / indirect
0 Indirect but high value
Applies Tinbergen's four questions — causation, development, function, evolution — to mimicry and play in humans and other social mammals, offering an integrative ethological framework.
