“Be dominant”, “don’t ask permission”, “don’t chase women”. For months, here is the kind of advice that can be found on social networks with the aim of becoming an “alpha male”. With hundreds of thousands of views per video, the concept meets its audience, passionate about the possible existence of absolute masculinity.
An idea according to which certain males dominate, in nature, in a tyrannical and aggressive manner. But is this really the case? If this role does indeed exist in certain species, there are in reality dozens of ways to “become alpha”. A little-known scientific reality, told to us in video by Antoine Beau, journalist in the Sciences department of L’Express. It can be found on our YouTube channeland all our social networks.