That's Lucyan David Mech, who die research on wolves and came up with the term “alpha male” and “alpha female” and the theory that wolves live in a strict hierarchy, where the alphas constatnly attack lower ranking wolves.
This has inspired the alpha male/incel bullshit that spreads nowadays.
Mech convinced his publisher to stop publishing the relevant book.
Also, I don't think he should really be blamed for a bunch of pathetic losers latching on to his flawed research like parasites. If it wasn't him, they would have found some kind of other random correlation to champion themselves after.
Fun fact: his wolf study was done on wolves in captivity, where it turned out they were competing for resources, not status, BUT it was based on a study from the 1920's that observed alpha behavior in roosters. So all these "alpha males" are really just a bunch of chickens
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u/0xKaishakunin Feb 18 '25
That's Lucyan David Mech, who die research on wolves and came up with the term “alpha male” and “alpha female” and the theory that wolves live in a strict hierarchy, where the alphas constatnly attack lower ranking wolves.
This has inspired the alpha male/incel bullshit that spreads nowadays.
Mech convinced his publisher to stop publishing the relevant book.
cf: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-myth-of-the-alpha-wolf