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#594 - Dr Richard Wrangham - The Incredible Evolution Of Human Violence

Modern Wisdom

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The Alpha Alliance and Female Promiscuity

There are a lot of incentives from both men and women, ancestrally and in the modern world, to really tune down that promiscuity. The alpha alliance is what I call the group of males who are responsible for killing the tyrant. Any female who goes against the norms that are imposed by the alpha alliance is going to be vulnerable to herself being executed. Men often have rituals that are associated with the reasons or the justifications for males being dominant over females.

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