the problem with ALPHA FEMALES
Aug 25, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
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In 1921, a Norwegian zoologist, Thorleif Sheldrup Eby, I'm so sorry, studied chickens and he found that within chickens, there was a pecking order.
Some birds were peckies and some birds were peckers.
And it seemed like all the chickens that...
Sheldorup Ebi studied, they all knew who was okay to do the pecking and who was okay to be pecked.
And he called it hakardnung or pecking order.
And so the chicken at the top of the pecking order was the alpha and also he first studied female chickens, the hens.
So actually The first alpha was a female chicken, a hen.
Now, as Sheldra of Eby's work proliferated, the concept of a pecking order got generalized, and it was then adopted into the study of primates and male dominance.
And in these studies, the dominant animal was the one who had the priority access to food, mates, and resources.
In 1932, Solly Zuckerman publishes his study of captive hamadryas baboons at the London Zoo, and he concludes that the strongest male wins primary access to females and resources, and that relations were the social glue holding the group together.
He also observed that male competition was the organizing principle of baboon society.
And in the same year, Aldous Huxley publishes his dystopic novel, Brave New World, in which humans are grown in a laboratory into fixed social castes, and they were organized with Greek letters.
Alphas at the top, and then betas, then gammas, deltas, epsilons.
And in the book, Huxley's alphas are the leaders.
They're beautiful, they're successful, and they had priority access to the resources and money and relations and medications.
And Huxley's alpha leaders in his dystopic novel is one of the earliest instances that the terminology is used on humans.
And honestly, think about it.
our current use of the terminology as we apply it to ourselves and each other is also quite dystopic in itself.
Now fast forward to 1939, Abraham Maslow, that hierarchy of needs guy, he publishes a paper called Dominance Personality and Social Behavior in Women.
He interviewed 130 women for what he called dominus quality, and these are women who are self-confident, not easily embarrassed, they prefer independence, and in his words, prefer to be treated like a person and not like a woman.
I mean, wild.
But okay.
He also wrote that high dominance women would make excellent leaders, which for 1939 was pretty provocative if you ask me.
In 1921, a Norwegian zoologist, Thorleif Sheldrup Eby, I'm so sorry, studied chickens and he found that within chickens, there was a pecking order.
Some birds were peckies and some birds were peckers.
And it seemed like all the chickens that...
Sheldorup Ebi studied, they all knew who was okay to do the pecking and who was okay to be pecked.
And he called it hakardnung or pecking order.
And so the chicken at the top of the pecking order was the alpha and also he first studied female chickens, the hens.
So actually The first alpha was a female chicken, a hen.
Now, as Sheldra of Eby's work proliferated, the concept of a pecking order got generalized, and it was then adopted into the study of primates and male dominance.
And in these studies, the dominant animal was the one who had the priority access to food, mates, and resources.
In 1932, Solly Zuckerman publishes his study of captive hamadryas baboons at the London Zoo, and he concludes that the strongest male wins primary access to females and resources, and that relations were the social glue holding the group together.
He also observed that male competition was the organizing principle of baboon society.
And in the same year, Aldous Huxley publishes his dystopic novel, Brave New World, in which humans are grown in a laboratory into fixed social castes, and they were organized with Greek letters.
Alphas at the top, and then betas, then gammas, deltas, epsilons.
And in the book, Huxley's alphas are the leaders.
They're beautiful, they're successful, and they had priority access to the resources and money and relations and medications.
And Huxley's alpha leaders in his dystopic novel is one of the earliest instances that the terminology is used on humans.
And honestly, think about it.
our current use of the terminology as we apply it to ourselves and each other is also quite dystopic in itself.
Now fast forward to 1939, Abraham Maslow, that hierarchy of needs guy, he publishes a paper called Dominance Personality and Social Behavior in Women.
He interviewed 130 women for what he called dominus quality, and these are women who are self-confident, not easily embarrassed, they prefer independence, and in his words, prefer to be treated like a person and not like a woman.
I mean, wild.
But okay.
He also wrote that high dominance women would make excellent leaders, which for 1939 was pretty provocative if you ask me.
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