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== Criticism == | == Criticism == | ||
[[File:Erh.jpg|thumb|Do not take advice from this [[wagecuck]] and alpha male about how humans work]] | [[File:Erh.jpg|thumb|Do not take advice from this [[wagecuck]] and alpha male about how humans work]] | ||
Hyper-liberal media and academia have challenged the notion of a human alpha male recently, saying applying animalistic concepts to humans is pseudo-science.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025407084054</ref> | Hyper-liberal media and academia have challenged the notion of a human alpha male recently, saying applying such animalistic concepts to humans is pseudo-science.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165025407084054</ref> | ||
However, there is nothing pseudo-scientific or non-obvious about the fact that men differ in their social, romantic and material success. With differential ability and success, it is inevitable that someone will be the best one and there is a host of evidence that women choose the best man of the ones that convincingly show interest ([[hypergamy]]). What is special about humans is that they compete in a wide variety of ways and culture determines to which degree physical aggression as in animals is involved. | However, there is nothing pseudo-scientific or non-obvious about the fact that men differ in their social, romantic and material success. With differential ability and success, it is inevitable that someone will be the best one and there is a host of evidence that women choose the best man of the ones that convincingly show interest ([[hypergamy]]). What is special about humans is that they compete in a wide variety of ways and culture determines to which degree physical aggression as in animals is involved. | ||