Risky play exercises an ancestral need to push limits

ScienceDaily
Sep 11, 2024, 11:20 am68 pts
Since their invention in the 1920s, jungle gyms and monkey bars have become both fixtures of playgrounds and symbols of childhood injury that anxious caretakers want removed. Anthropologists mark 100 years of the iconic playground equipment by arguing that risky play exercises a biological need passed on from…

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