Sentences with phrase «strong social hierarchies»

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There are plenty of species of animal that do have social hierarchies where the strongest or most aggressive male rises to the top, such as gorillas and chimpanzees, but canids like wolves and dogs generally don't operate like this.

Plenty of animal species do have social hierarchies where the strongest male rises to the top, but canids like wolves and dogs generally don't operate like this.

Third, it exposed the fact that Iniva's programme has, since the mid 2000s, existed in a state of arrested development, a position of stasis made all the more apparent by the accelerated rate of social, economic and cultural change during the period — most notably the partial dissolution of cultural hierarchies facilitated by the world wide web, and the emergence of strong grass roots arts activities and young independent organisations operating, for however brief a period, outside the mainstream.