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Some men label themselves alphas - citing an old study on wolves, but surprisingly the results might not be as applicable to humans (or even wolves) as you might have thought… You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/SciGuys Help keep the show running by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/sciguys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials! Facebook http://facebook.com/SciGuysPod Twitter http://twitter.com/SciGuysPod Instagram http://instagram.com/SciGuysPod References & Further Reading Wolf Packs https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/wolf-pack-mentality.htm https://www.wolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/267alphastatus_english.pdf https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21963347 https://wolf.org/wolf-info/basic-wolf-info/wolf-faqs/#toggle-id-21 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3881436 Animal Social Behaviour & Hierarchies https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180925-with-females-in-charge-bonobo-society-is-more-chilled-out http://amydprice.com/hypertext_narrative/primates_research.pdf https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bonobo-sex-and-society-2006-06/ https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/bonobo https://www.britannica.com/video/193398/bonobos-humans https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/l_073_03.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/2180434-the-7-non-human-mammals-where-females-rule-the-roost/amp/ Human Alpha Studies https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30978215/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025407084054 Alpha Male Pseudoscience https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2021/01/26/the-pseudoscience-behind-the-sigma-male-explained/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alpha-male-alpha-chimpanzee-primatologist-frans-de-waal-a8421291.html%3Famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/no-such-thing-alpha-male-2016-10%3Famp https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTyQgwVvYyc http://davemech.org/wolf-news-and-information/schenkels-classic-wolf-behavior-study-available-in-english/ http://davemech.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ExpressionstudiesP.1-10.pdf https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtFgdwTsbU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsSKKL8N0s Follow the SCI GUYS @notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth