As for another wolf-related species with which we are intimately familiar, Temple Grandin, in her bookAnimals Make us Humanhas recently argued the scientific case that those who see dogs in the wild as having dominance hierarchies are decidedly wrong. She undercuts the notion of the “alpha”...
Then let us consider the consequences for these two traits in terms of reproductive advantage. First, the female preference will confer an additional advantage to the cocks who have the desired trait, this advantage being proportional to the intensity of this preference. Secondly, “the intensity ...
Teen girl reality will explode, and every trait established in the female brain during girlhood—communication, social connection, desire for ap- proval, reading faces for cues as to what to think or feel—will intensify. This is the time when a girl becomes most communicative with her girl...
The self is one the most important concepts in social cognition and plays a crucial role in determining which social groups we view ourselves as belonging to and how we relate to others. In the past decade, the self has also become an important topic within cognitive neuroscience, with an ex...
If this feeding advantage permits longer-necked gi- raffes to survive and reproduce even slightly more effectively than shorter-necked ones, the trait will be favored by natural selection. The giraffes with longer necks will be more likely to transmit their ge- netic material to future ...