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- Dominant individuals accrue social influence and achieve superior resource access and greater fitness through their greater coercive control over costs and benefits; they maintain their attained rank in a stable hierarchy through intimidation and threats.
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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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Chen Zeng T, Cheng J and Henrich J (2022) Dominance in...
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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 role...
May 27, 2024 · One can imagine why these stories took hold. For our Bronze Age relatives more than 3,500 years ago, the dangers posed by nonhuman species were real and acutely felt. In those times, achieving some degree of dominance over nonhuman nature was seen as a gift.
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Dominant individuals accrue social influence and achieve superior resource access and greater fitness through their greater coercive control over costs and benefits; they maintain their attained rank in a stable hierarchy through intimidation and threats.
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Mar 2, 2012 · Dominance is a characteristic of highly social animals, such as humans, in which individuals of the same species compete intensely with one another for food, mates, territory, or any other ...
Across species, social hierarchies are often governed by dominance relations. In humans, where there are multiple culturally valued axes of distinction, social hierarchies can take a variety of forms and need not rest on dominance relations.
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May 3, 2022 · 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.