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Podcast: The Neurodivergent Professor
Episode: KEW Episode 111: Vulnerability is Your Superpower
Description: I have been thinking a lot about the popular images of aggressive male competitors. Silverback gorillas. Wrestlemania or UFC fighters. These popular ideas feature 'Alpha males' bullying and pushing around 'weaker' males in order to get mates, habitat, or food. These toxic stereotypes probably spill over into popular culture and contribute to the issues we have among genders today.My question is, how common are these 'alpha males'? How 'fit' were these gender differences across all the sexually reproducing species that ever lived? Because if natural selection had chosen this to be 'fit', wouldn't we have evolved...