Anybody ever call you an "alpha female"? They probably meant it as a compliment — kind of. The concept of the alpha female and male is common in zoology, and basically refers to dominance: the boss at ...

Within popular culture, there is no shortage of references to "alpha males." Plenty of books advise men on how to become one, and an abundance of movies depict their purportedly fabulous lives. From ...

In 1947, the Swiss zoologist Rudolf Schenkel published a paper titled “Expression Studies on Wolves.” Based on an eight-year ...

Forget the sexual revolution of the 1960s. It seems the move to monogamy, maybe several million years ago, might have been the biggest revolution in romantic relationships. According to a new study ...

A group of chacma baboons in the middle of a grooming session. On the left, the larger male has his fur cleaned by a smaller female with a baby. In this species, males are dominant over females. Power ...

They want someone to tell them what to do. Manosphere influencers offer up an intoxicating blend of easy answers, ...

Boosting the activity of certain brain cells can help a mouse climb the social ladder. Nerve cells in a region called the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex appear to control whether male mice are dominant ...

Eric Trump had an interesting excuse for his father’s remarks on the Access Hollywood tape. “At the same time, I think it’s locker room banter,” he said, repeating his father’s description of it. “I ...

In my experience, confessions are pretty fuckin’ useless. Never has being on the receiving end of a confession resulted in me feeling happy or relieved or satisfied. They’ve all been pretty ...