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- Dominance is the aspect of social hierarchy that arises from agonistic interactions involving actual aggression or threats and intimidation. Accumulating evidence points to its importance in humans and its separation from prestige--an alternate mechanism in which status arises from competence or benefit-generation ability.
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Jan 10, 2022 · In this review, we provide an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of dominance as a concept within evolutionary biology, discuss the challenges of applying it to humans and consider alternative theoretical accounts which assert that dominance is relevant to understanding status in humans.
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In this review, we provide an overview of the theoretical...
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evidence for dominance in humans, drawing evidence from...
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Moreover, dominance refers to the capacity to make another...
- A Dynamic Model of Reproductive Skew
When the possibility of acceding to dominant status is taken...
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Here, we aim to facilitate comparative study into dominance...
- Voice Pitch Predicts Reproductive Success in Male Hunter-Gatherers
Chen Zeng T, Cheng J and Henrich J (2022) Dominance in...
- Prestige and Dominance-Based Hierarchies Exist in Naturally Occurring Human Groups, But Are Unrelated to Task-Specific Knowledge
1. Introduction. Prestige and dominance are said to be ‘two...
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The real reason humans are the dominant species. From early humans rubbing sticks together to make fire, to the fossil fuels that drove the industrial revolution, energy has played a central...
May 27, 2024 · Scientists sometimes describe us as an ecological ‘success’. This is a very different way of narrating the science. It acknowledges human dominance, but in a morally positive way: we must have done something right to be where we are today. Our ‘success’ is a reason for pride.
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Dominance is the aspect of social hierarchy that arises from agonistic interactions involving actual aggression or threats and intimidation. Accumulating evidence points to its importance in humans and its separation from prestige--an alternate mechanism in which status arises from competence or benefit-generation ability.
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Jan 10, 2022 · We identify five broad questions at the individual, dyadic and group levels, exploring the causes and consequences of individual changes in rank, the dynamics underlying dyadic dominance relationships, and the origins and impacts of social instability. Although challenges remain, we propose avenues for overcoming them.
Jan 1, 2021 · In their biosocial model, Wood and Eagly (2012) argue that biological differences between men and women predisposed them to different social roles within communities which, in turn, influenced many of the traits and behaviors which we consider to be “male/masculine” and “female/feminine” today.
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Dominance itself can be subdivided into correlated subfactors: domineering, prestige, and leadership. Various explanations have been posed for why dominance has declined in prominence within human personality factor structures, and several possibilities are evaluated.
