Tuesday, September 30

How to resist alpha males

Name: How to resist alpha males
Start: 2025-09-30T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-30T20:00:00+01:00
Location: UCL Anthropology Dept

By Camilla Power

Radical anthropologists Chris Knight and Camilla Power ask what can we learn from monkeys and apes about resistance to male dominance?

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UCL Anthropology Dept

14 Taviton St London WC1H 0BW United Kingdom

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1 hour, 30 minutes
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Among machiavellian intelligent primates, just being bigger and stronger doesn’t always win. This is not only true with Old World Monkeys who have female kin bonds (eg vervets) but also unrelated female great apes such as bonobos and the highly sex size dimorphic gorillas. Critical features are strategies of ganging together, confusing males on fertility, and ability to say NO! What could that say about gender relations and conflict in our ancestry?

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Sep 30 · 6:30 PM GMT+1