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And what you see here is a graph where you see that the lower ranking the male baboon is, the higher is his cortisol level in the feces, but the alpha male, as you see, has just as high a level as the lowest-ranking males, and so you may think that being alpha male is nice and dandy and is wonderful, but it's actually a very stressful position, and we can demonstrate that physiologically.

And it's very interesting to me that alpha males, when they do this, they become impartial.

And so they become impartial, which is an unusual condition for a chimpanzee to be in, because they're usually very fond of their friends and so on, and these alpha males who are good at this, they can be very effective at keeping the peace in the group.

And high-ranking males, they do a lot of this.

High-ranking males provide an enormous amount of comfort in the group, and they go to places where there are earthquakes or hurricanes and they provide comfort.

And males who are good at these two, keeping the peace and providing comfort, they become extremely popular leaders, and there's actually some self-interest involved in it.

So the group is usually very supportive of males who are good leaders, and it's not supportive at all of bullies.

This is data on consolation in chimpanzees, and you see for the medium- and low-ranking individuals, the females do more of it than the males.

And this is true for all the mammal studies on empathy is that females have more of it than males.

And so that's the data on alpha males being the consoler in chief, basically.

So she was not physically capable of dominating the males.

She ranked below the males, but she was the center of the community, and if there was big trouble in the community, everyone would end up in the arms of Mama.

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.

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.

And in this supposed source of our moral values, one can read descriptions of what was expected in warfare, such as the following from Numbers 31: "And they warred against the Midianites as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males.

Now there are two features of mosquito biology that really help us in this project, and that is, firstly, males don't bite.

And the second is a phenomenon that males are very, very good at finding females.

If you put more sterile males out into the environment, then the females are more likely to find a sterile male than a fertile one, and you will bring that population down.

So the males will go out, they'll look for females, they'll mate.

We've separated the males from the females.

The males have been put in little pots and the truck is going down the road and they are releasing males as they go.

You know, in primates, there is this phenomenon called sexual dimorphism, which simply means males are larger than females and males have larger teeth than the females.

Now hours per person are shrinking, first because of the retirement of the baby boomers, and second because there's been a very significant dropping out of the labor force of prime age adult males who are in the bottom half of the educational distribution.

Now, young dolphins learn a lot as they're growing up, and they use their teenage years to practice social skills, and at about the age of nine, the females become sexually mature, so they can get pregnant, and the males mature quite a bit later, at around 15 years of age.

For example, males will stimulate a female during a courtship chase.

The males have dominance displays that they use when they're chasing each other's females.

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For examples, in sea horses or in koalas, in fact, it is the males who take care of the young always.

He was perplexed by the sexual swellings of certain primates, including chimps and bonobos, because these sexual swellings tend to provoke many males to mate with the females.

Chimps and bonobos, Darwin didn't really know this, but chimps and bonobos mate one to four times per hour with up to a dozen males per day when they have their sexual swellings.

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