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Warpy

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6. The work on dominance was especially fascinating
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:23 PM
Oct 2025

since it focused more on how they'd gotten there, not what their personalities were like once they got there.] Goodall also studied what happened once they were out of office and the Fatso types were not missed by anoyone and usually faced a swift, solitary, and sad end. One can hope, at least for the "swift" part.

In any case, studies of dominance have shown that bully boy "alpha males" do poorly after they're out of their position, and they're generally out a lot sooner than coalition builders are.

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