Primal: Power, Status, and Sex in Humans and Other Animals

Have you ever questioned your place in society?

Why do social hierarchies exist at all? Where would we be without them? We celebrate and scorn them, often in equal measure, but what would happen to the world of social mammals, fish, birds, and insects without hierarchies? What can we learn about ourselves, as humans, by re-examining our own status within our social circles and the greater society at large?

How are we, consciously or unconsciously, driven by sex and power?

Humans are a social s...