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294. Eugenics: Flawed Thinking Behind Pushed Science | Alex Story
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Dominance Hierarchies of a Voluntary Play
There's this idea. that social animals organize themselves into hierarchical structures. And I thought really that, that, that strain of Marxism had invaded biology to such a degree that that became an axiomatic presumption. But then I started talking about hierarchies of competence and more recently of hierarchies of a voluntary play. There's a man named Yach Panksep who studied play behavior in rats. He showed quite clearly that if you paired juvenile rats together and allowed them to play because they wrestle that in the first contact, the bigger rat could win over the smaller rat. That's a stunningly brilliant observation. Then DeWahl has shown you have this notion of the alpha chimp
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