Dominance Versus Prestige in a Rapidly Escalating Fight?

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"If you don't continue to play fair, the effectiveness of that match up at judging who is more physically formidable goes out of the window," he says. "You might rule through respect if you were the guy that did things in a more fair manner." The idea of prestige where people freely confer status on you versus dominance, where you sort of impose costs and instill intimidation, would make sense to me... I mean, I think in that moment, it might actually work, right?"

Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran.

Men fight. Sometimes they look silly when they fight. But they also collaborate and team up to take on common enemies. Women fight in very different ways that are less obvious, but no less vicious, and they sometimes try to even scupper their own teammates.

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