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      • The relationship between the fitness effects of heterozygous and homozygous genotypes at a locus, termed dominance, is a major factor that determines the fate of new alleles in a population, and has far reaching implications for genetic diseases and evolutionary genetics 1, 2, 3, 4.
      www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05281-7
  1. 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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      important in human evolution [43,44]. Factors that promote...

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      (a) The pecking order is established. Thorlief...

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Jun 10, 2020 · In social animals, the formation of dominance hierarchy is essential for maintaining the stability and efficacy of social groups. A study by Wang and colleagues employ a combination of...

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    • blahn@bsd.uchicago.edu
    • 2020
  6. Jan 1, 2021 · Dominance is the rank of an individual relative to conspecifics, which predicts the outcomes of social interactions and has consequences for access to resources and influence. Introduction. An individual’s rank relative to its conspecifics is a predictor of behavior, health, and reproductive output across the animal kingdom.

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  8. Feb 28, 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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