Who invented football?

On 15 May the State Darwin Museum will present a new exhibition “Who invented football?” about animals as first inventors of sports games. The project is dedicated to the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia.

Animals and birds started playing games long before a prehistoric human took a stone tool in his hands. Sports games among animals are very similar to human ones such as tag, hide-and-seek or play-fight. Many zoopsychologists, ethologists and comparative psychologists including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Darwin and Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts explored the origin of games among animals in their works. Wonderful scientific discoveries and originals of some scientific works from the rare books fund will be presented at the exhibition. How old is football and who was the first player in the history of mankind? A special part of the exhibition will be dedicated to the most popular team game in the human world. The exhibition marks special dates in the football history of Russia from the end of the 19^th century until present days, tells about which animals were chosen as the official mascots of the FIFA World cup in different years, including Zabivaka the wolf, the mascot of 2018. 

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