Sep 11, 2009 7:36 PM

No more 'alpha male'! : A Blog Around The Clock

Bora ponders the unnoticed death of the alpha male -- in wolves, anyway, if not in the human mind.

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/no_more_alpha_male.php Posted via email from David Dobbs's Somatic Marker

David Dobbs, author of the Kindle Single bestseller My Mother's Lover, writes features and essays for publications including the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Nature, and other publications. He is working on his fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion. You also follow his wider wanderings on ... Read More

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