"beta female" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009, Joan Roughgarden, Evolution’s Rainbow, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In seventeen instances, an alpha female approached a beta female while both were alone, and they mated.",
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          "ref": "2013 -, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The alpha female of troop I, with her offspring at her chest, sits next to the beta female.",
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          "ref": "2014, Keith McCafferty, Dead Man's Fancy: A Novel, →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "Let me get this in focus and ... okay, we got, yes, I think so, the beta female and the omega male, he's a shade darker.",
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        "A female that is second in a social or group hierarchy; subordinate to an alpha female but superior to an omega female."
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          "ref": "2012, Sally J. Walker, Screenwriting Secrets in Genre Film, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The Beta Female is perceptive, emotional, maternal and soft.",
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          "ref": "2013, Anna Madsen, Glamour Puss - a Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Being a Powerful Woman, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The beta female is sensitive: rather than shouting and being aggressive, she shows her discontent with tears and a pouting lip.",
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          "ref": "2013, E. Marx, The Power of Global Teams:",
          "text": "She demonstrated in her research that a combination of masculine and feminine dispositions is more adaptive than stereotypial extremes. Bad news for the alpha male and beta female!",
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          "text": "Let me get this in focus and ... okay, we got, yes, I think so, the beta female and the omega male, he's a shade darker.",
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