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189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Cocaine Study on Baboon Hierarchies
Submissive monkeys take cocaine, whereas the powerful monkeys are happy with banana pellets. This doesn't quite seem to match with my experience of human powerful people. The research that's been done on baboon hierarchies is really, really interesting and shows there is actually a biological effect tied to hierarchy. As you go down to the bottom, it's the most stressful because you don't have access to resources, mates, food. You're being picked on all the time. So as you go up, you age al but slower. And then when you get to the apex, when you getting to the alpha male, you age a lot.
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