Symbolic Hunt
Here's a book I'd like to get my hands on, "An Interdisciplinary Study of Sport As A Symbolic Hunt: The Theory of the Origin and Nature of Sport Based on Paleolithic Hunting."
Modern sports usually have 5 to 12 players on each team, which is supposedly the number of young men in ancient hunter-gatherer tribes. Sports are obviously male-driven (sorry ladies), and this seems to be a part of our evolutionary heritage.
This book is a little too expensive, but maybe I can find it at the local university.

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