{"id":20857,"date":"2025-12-21T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20857"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:28:11","slug":"the-scientific-lie-that-damaged-generations-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20857","title":{"rendered":"The Scientific Lie That Damaged Generations of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wolves don&#8217;t actually have alpha males. That idea was based on a study of wolves forced together in a zoo. In nature, wolves live in families. The mother and father of a family aren&#8217;t best understood as &#8220;alphas&#8221;, they are best understood as the mother and father of a family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Chimps, there isn&#8217;t just one dominant leader. The apparent alpha often does not lead in combat with other chimps, and the leader leads by cooperation and aid, not just force.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Scientific Lie That Damaged Generations of Men\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kOuer8-sIzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves don&#8217;t actually have alpha males. That idea was based on a study of wolves forced together in a zoo. In nature, wolves live in families. The mother and father of a family aren&#8217;t best understood as &#8220;alphas&#8221;, they are best understood as the mother and father of a family. <\/p>\n<p>In Chimps, there isn&#8217;t just one dominant leader. The apparent alpha often does not lead in combat with other chimps, and the leader leads by cooperation and aid, not just force. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kOuer8-sIzQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1131,2043,811],"class_list":["post-20857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-biology","tag-men","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20858,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857\/revisions\/20858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}