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And so that's the data on alpha males being the consoler in chief, basically.
The last thing I want to say is something about alpha females.
This is a picture of Mama, the alpha female in the Arnhem zoo where I used to work, who is now all over the internet, I think a hundred million clicks at the moment, for a video of her dying at the age of 59, which happened last year.
And so I don't want to minimize the position of alpha females in the chimpanzee group.
We often forget about the bonobo, but the bonobos have a matriarchal society and the alpha individual is a female, generally.
But I do want to emphasize that the alpha in a group doesn't need to be a male, and that actually in one of our close relatives, it is a female.
You should not call a bully an alpha male.
Someone who is big and strong and intimidates and insults everyone is not necessarily an alpha male.
An alpha male has all sorts of qualities, and I have seen bully alpha males in chimpanzees, they do occur, but most of the ones that we have have leadership capacities and are integrated in their community, and, like Amos at the end, they are loved and respected, and so it's a very different situation than you may think.
I think we need to consider everything, everything from alpha to OMEGA.
So what we find is that high-power alpha males in primate hierarchies have high testosterone and low cortisol, and powerful and effective leaders also have high testosterone and low cortisol.
So we know that in primate hierarchies, if an alpha needs to take over, if an individual needs to take over an alpha role sort of suddenly, within a few days, that individual's testosterone has gone up significantly and his cortisol has dropped significantly.
One way of describing the plutocrats is as alpha geeks, and they are people who are acutely aware of how important highly sophisticated analytical and quantitative skills are in today's economy.
In our species, the alpha males define reality, and force the rest of the pack to accept that reality and follow the rules.
And then, when they wandered just outside the border, two of their adults were killed, including the mother, which we sometimes call the alpha female.
The alpha male wound up being ejected from his own family.
In starches, which plants mostly store for energy in roots and seeds, glucose molecules are joined together by alpha linkages, most of which can be easily cleaved by enzymes in your digestive tract.
Aleph traveled with Phoenicians and reached the European shores in Greece, where it became alpha, the mother of our letter A. So that's how an Egyptian cow became our letter A. (Laughter) And same thing with the Egyptian house that became bet, beta and B. And the Egyptian fish that became daleth, delta and D. Our most fundamental texts are full of Egyptian cows, houses and fish.
So, we get in dog training this notion of dominances, or of the alpha dog.
About six months before, he proposed the alpha helical structure for proteins.
He certainly wasn't smiling when I got there, because he was somewhat humiliated by Pauling getting the alpha helix, and the Cambridge people failing because they weren't chemists.
And we found that not only were the distributions these straight lines, but the slope of these lines, they clustered around this value of alpha equals 2.5.
What we're saying here is the probability of an attack killing X number of people in a country like Iraq is equal to a constant, times the size of that attack, raised to the power of negative alpha.
And negative alpha is the slope of that line I showed you before.
And what we really found was that alpha, if we think about it, is the organizational structure of the insurgency.
This next artist is probably the alpha male of contemporary Indian art, Subodh Gupta.
He's our alpha male; he's a kind of big guy.
Bogey basically plays the same character as in the Marlow films; always in control of a situation, never nervous - no matter how dangerous a situation, calls women "slim" and "dames" and other such nonsense, is the only "real male" i.e. alpha male in the movie (the only other alpha male male being the head of Gestapo - but he is only a fat alpha male male), and - naturally - every attractive young woman who comes his way cannot resist his charms and wants his penis within hours of their initial introduction.
A pinch of salt and some beers on a dark evening on the sofa watching a noisy late evening shoot em up is perfect for a single alpha male like me.
The film's design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country (U.S.).
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