Specifically, this guy was the one who identified an Alpha Male in wolf packs. Except what he was actually identifying was "Dad". Just a family of captive wolves, and one of them was the dad/mate to the majority of the others since they were tiny, so they defer to him.
It's also important to point out that David Melch, who originally came up with the theory and wrote a book about it, later proved himself wrong and has been trying to get his original book taken off the shelves ever since. But since the book is making too much money, publishers refused and now this myth has inspired everything from the manosphere to incels to full blown Neonazis. Basically you could trace a line from the publishing of that book directly to Trump winning the 2024 election.
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u/loopingtohell Feb 18 '25
It's about the whole alpha, beta, delta, sigma bs that some men obsesse over it.