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  1. John Morreall, Comic Relief (Malden, Mass.: John Wiley & Sons, 2009).

  2. Matthew Gervais and David Sloan Wilson, “The Evolution and Functions of Laughter and Humor: A Synthetic Approach,” Vol. 80, No. 4 (Dec 2005), p. 398.

  3. V. S. Ramachandran, “The Neurology and Evolution of Humor, Laughter, and Smiling: The False Alarm Theory,” Medical Hypotheses, Vol. 51 (1998), p. 352.

  4. Ibid., p. 352.

  5. Peter K. Smith and Ralph V. Vollstedt, “On Defining Play: An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between Play and Various Play Criteria,” Child Development, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Aug 1985), p. 1566.

  6. Ibid., p. 1566.

  7. As cited in Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, “Child’s Play: A Multidisciplinary Perspective,” Human Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (2003), p. 410.

  8. Brian Boyd, “Laughter and Literature: A Play Theory of Humor,” Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 28, No. 1 (April 2004), p. 6.

  9. Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks, “Belief and the Basis of Humor,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct 1993), p. 333.

  10. See Morreall, op. cit., p. 28.

  11. See Morreall, op. cit., p. 32.

  12. Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks, “Belief and the Basis of Humor,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct 1993), pp. 330–331.

  13. Joseph Polimeni and Jeffrey P. Reiss, “The First Joke: Exploring the Evolutionary Origins of Humor,” Evolutionary Psychology, Vol. 4 (2006), p. 348.

  14. See Morreall, op. cit., pp. 43–44.

  15. Pam Jarvis, “‘Rough and Tumble” Play: Lessons in Life,” Evolutionary Psychology, Vol. 4 (2006), pp. 268–284.

  16. Ibid., p. 271.

  17. Ibid., pp. 279–280.

  18. Ibid., p. 281.

  19. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, “Child’s Play: A Multidisciplinary Perspective,” Human Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (2003), pp. 409–430.

  20. Ibid., p. 409.

  21. Ibid., p. 412.

  22. Ibid., p. 413.

  23. See Sheets-Johnstone, op. cit., p. 418.

  24. See Polimeni and Reiss, op. cit., p. 347.

  25. See Polimeni and Reiss, op. cit., pp. 353–354.

  26. See Polimeni and Reiss, op. cit., p. 361.

  27. See Polimeni and Reiss, op. cit., p. 361.

  28. See Jarvis, op. cit., p. 276.

  29. See Moreall, op. cit., p. 43.

  30. Ibid., p. 42.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Ibid., p. 43.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Ibid.

  35. See Jarvis, op. cit., See Sheets-Johnstone, op. cit., See Boyd, op. cit., See Smith and Vollstedt.

  36. See Morreall, op. cit., p. 58.

  37. See Morreall citing Kant, op. cit., pp. 41, 56, 66.

  38. See Morreall, op. cit., pp. 48, 49.

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Tapley, R. On Morreall: A Failure to Distinguish Between Play and Humor. J Value Inquiry 47, 147–162 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-013-9365-1

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