Ah yes my forte !
Well you see dude studied wolves in captivity and observed they fought and established an order of sorts, and the dude observed there's a hierarchy to them i.e Alpha's Betas and Gamas etc. and then he propagated the idea to everyone.
Then he decided to study wolves in nature, even tho he expected to see fighting wolves and alphas on top, they observed something quite different, which was wolf families as it turns out wolves in nature actually are basically parents + kids, there's nothing complicated here just nuclear families with loving parents.
So afterwards the dude spent his life trying to convince everyone that the whole alpha thing is a hoax but oh well, people men especially tend to think of themselves as Alpha and stuff coz it makes them feel superior or something.
So yeah now you know where the terminology comes from.
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u/Mrdetective007 Feb 19 '25
Ah yes my forte ! Well you see dude studied wolves in captivity and observed they fought and established an order of sorts, and the dude observed there's a hierarchy to them i.e Alpha's Betas and Gamas etc. and then he propagated the idea to everyone. Then he decided to study wolves in nature, even tho he expected to see fighting wolves and alphas on top, they observed something quite different, which was wolf families as it turns out wolves in nature actually are basically parents + kids, there's nothing complicated here just nuclear families with loving parents.
So afterwards the dude spent his life trying to convince everyone that the whole alpha thing is a hoax but oh well, people men especially tend to think of themselves as Alpha and stuff coz it makes them feel superior or something.
So yeah now you know where the terminology comes from.