Academic Minute: Why Men Care About Status

January 11, 2017

Dr. Christopher von Rueden, assistant professor of leadership studies, talks about his research with Dr. Adrian Jaeggi, which explores whether hunter-gather societies cared as much about status as men in modern industrialized societies.

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"We analyzed 33 non-industrialized societies from around the globe to test whether men's status is associated with reproductive success, the currency that matters in evolution."

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