Alpha
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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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