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Psychopathic Chimpanzees
In human groups the meanest nastiest doesn't rise to the top you have to have allies so alliance building is an important component of success in human societies not so much it is apparently in chimpanzees. The stable alphas sometimes are smaller males who ally themselves with powerful females but who are also more reciprocal often in their interactions than any other individual in the group and so de wall has done this lovely job of relating let's say cooperative leadership to social stability and length of rain.