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> 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do Citation needed. Even wolf packs have alphas, as I understand "hunter gatherer"
by _xnmw 4y ago
> 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do
Citation needed. Even wolf packs have alphas, as I understand "hunter gatherer" societies were even less flat, if you disobeyed the leader you had your head chopped off.
- meheleventyone 4y agoThe irony is that the whole alpha thing in wolves is itself a myth.
- BuckyBeaver 4y agoI read a great takedown of the whole "alpha" thing a while back, but can't remember where. Its message was that "alphas" are kind of losers, when all is said and done.
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- eddsh1994 4y agoI looked into the whole Alpha thing when I was training my husky and found it’s actually an outdated model/idea
- DennisP 4y agoOne thing I remember from my degree in cultural anthropology is that there's not much you can generalize about hunter gatherer societies. At least some of them were quite egalitarian.