In 2004, primatologist Robert Sapolsky published a paper about a remarkable troop of savanna baboons. In the early 1980s, the troop’s most aggressive alpha males invaded another troop’s territory every morning for access to a hotel’s garbage dump and fought for first pickings. Mornings are normally committed to socialization, but these alphas would forgo natural bonding behaviors, fighting off even their own troop members to ensure that they got the best food.
Their troop was…