Social rank : Girls

                             

A study of 10 social groups of macaque females showed that the activity level of

an individual's immune genes was an accurate predictor of her social rank...

a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  (click )  :wink:

The team also showed that the monkey's immunity changed when

social rank was altered. !

A great many studies have shown associations in both humans and non-human primates

between social environment and biological markers of health....

more weapons for the man to use against the rest of us?