Education Pays – Part 1

This is the first in a multi-part series on the Alpha male and education. It should be obvious to any of us that career success and affluence is important if we define an Alpha male in terms of social dominance, which is the most apt description when arguing from a biological standpoint.  Others have defined [...]

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Are the Beautiful Smarter? Assortive Mating and Fecundity

Beauty is highly prized by humans, particularly in prospective mates.  This is because beauty is believed to be a proxy for reproductive fitness and genetic strength.  Despite many unctuous diatribes by those who would have us see more than skin deep, people continue to sort themselves for procreative purposes in accordance with their attractiveness, both [...]

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Armed and Dangerous: Warrior gene linked to violent behavior

Dominant men are prone to violence and aggression. There are doubtless many biological bases for this, including testosterone and nitric oxide levels. Research may have found another however, a genetic variant of a gene named MAOA, aka the “Warrior Gene” (hat tip to blogger Male Chauvinist Woman at Female Misogynist). 

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Man or Mouse

A study on mice found that inhibition of nitric oxide, a neurotransmitter, led to increased aggression, often fatal between males.  Another effect was persistent sexual advances even where females were not receptive.  It seems that both of these behaviors are linked: Johns Hopkins University scientists have discovered a genetic basis for violent and excessive sexual [...]

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Men Live for Dangerous Curves

It’s well known that men are attracted to an hourglass shape in women, yet with obesity rampant and rising in America, such exemplary specimens are becoming more difficult to find.  Size inflation has become a national pastime.  In the popular media, we continually hear how men should overcome their nature and give “real women” meaning [...]

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Live Fast, Die Young, and Leave Many Offspring: The Net Effect of High Testosterone is Reproductive Success

A rhetorical question with the evidence to back up the answer: Does being an Alpha male pay off in the long run?  Not surprisingly, the answer is “duh.”  Alpha males are known for being a macho men, and this is the result of greater circulating testosterone levels and its consequent secondary sexual characteristics that define [...]

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A Little Fear is a Good Thing

I can smell your fear, we all can.  Human pheromones emitted during stress and fear can actually increase the mental acuity of those perceiving them.  This, like caffeine, puts us in a heightened state of arousal and alertness.  This has dual potential outcomes, because we know from experience that the ones experiencing the fear, while [...]

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The 50th Law: New Book by Robert Greene and 50 Cent

A new book, called The 50th Law is due out soon is co-authored by Robert Greene and 50 Cent and promises to be a great read.  Robert Green is the author of several other books in my library which are profound and useful in the art of game: The Art of Seduction, The 48 Laws [...]

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Steve Pavlina on Self-Discipline

Little is more important to our success and accomplishments in life than self-discipline, yet little is more absent from many of the lives I see around me.  Like most everyone my own self-discipline, while good, varies over time.  I have conditioned myself to feel like I’m wasting time if my activities aren’t contributing to my [...]

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What the Hell is Wrong with the Willing Beta?

I stumbled across this site and was stricken with a near-mortal case of the dry-heaves.  This utterly confounds me as it is a complete perversion of the natural order of things.  I can only surmise that this submissive male phenomenon has grown out of the rampant incidence of single-motherhood afflicting the nation. According to the [...]

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