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Screw alpha males, I'm an alpha woman with a thing for omega soft guys. ๐ฅฐ
I'm a male Bonobo, please keep me in line.
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The dude from the Scorpions also studies wolves?? When he's not rocking you like a hurricane?
No wait, that's Rudolf Schenker.
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There are species that do have leader types in the social hierarchies though. Gorillas for example, or orcas.
The problem is that you can't use info about wolf hierarchies to draw conclusions about human hierarchies. You can't even use info about extant primates to draw conclusions about humans.
If you were a (regressive, anti-science) female that believed this, wouldn't you have to be a "beta" wolf in this fictional world?
Thats the funniest part about this belief. The pop version is not even accurate to the original research, just a gross misinterpretation. The original bogus hierarchy started with the alpha couple, who are supposed to be the only reproductive couple of the pack. The rest of the population was simply defined by feeding hierarchy, who ate first. This might sound plausible but it only makes sense when you live in a fenced enclosure and there's only like 8 of you, no den space for offspring and you can't leave to find non-family mates. But then people made up a bunch of zodiac style personalities for this shit, and they're just as scientific.
Carrots improve eyesight...nah, just military misinformation that is now a staple for parents to get their kids to eat their carrots
Vitamin A is crucial to eyesight and night vision though
Entirely offtopic but you're not by chance the same ryannathans that's involved in the 2009scape project are you?
The one and the same
Hey small world (wide web)!
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Did Schenkel deliberately make up that alpha shit (which would justify calling his paper "bogus") or was he just bad at research?
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