"delta female" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "2009, Gayden Metcalfe, Some Day You'll Thank Me for This",
          "text": "If a DSM “lets herself go”—the phrase is one of the most horrible in the Delta female's lexicon—Mother will regard it as a reflection on herself.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Malcolm Macdonald, Strange Music",
          "text": "In plain English, the alpha female is telling her beta-mate that she wants this Debbie girl, who will be very much a delta female, to take up the spare room in their flat, since her parents have cast her out in the snow.",
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          "ref": "2019, Ruby Wax, How Do You Want Me?, page 144",
          "text": "There are only two types of Delta Female who have ever successfully captured the Alpha Male!",
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        "A relatively low-status woman in the sociosexual hierarchy, (ranking below alpha, beta, and gamma females, but above omega females)."
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          "beta",
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          "gamma female",
          "gamma female"
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          "omega female",
          "omega female"
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          "ref": "1968 June, Frank E. Poirier, “The Nilgiri langur (Presbytis johnii) mother-infant dyad”, in Primates, volume 9",
          "text": "The alpha female moves through the tree and sits next to the delta female; she reaches for her infant, but the delta female turns her back.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Folia Primatologica, page 460",
          "text": "It is interesting to note in this regard that the alpha female slapped the beta female, but only displayed toward the delta female.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research, page 308",
          "text": "The beta female approaches the delta female who sits with an infant at her chest.",
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          "ref": "2009, Gayden Metcalfe, Some Day You'll Thank Me for This",
          "text": "If a DSM “lets herself go”—the phrase is one of the most horrible in the Delta female's lexicon—Mother will regard it as a reflection on herself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Malcolm Macdonald, Strange Music",
          "text": "In plain English, the alpha female is telling her beta-mate that she wants this Debbie girl, who will be very much a delta female, to take up the spare room in their flat, since her parents have cast her out in the snow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "There are only two types of Delta Female who have ever successfully captured the Alpha Male!",
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      ],
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        "A relatively low-status woman in the sociosexual hierarchy, (ranking below alpha, beta, and gamma females, but above omega females)."
      ],
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          "gamma female",
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          "omega female",
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          "ref": "1968 June, Frank E. Poirier, “The Nilgiri langur (Presbytis johnii) mother-infant dyad”, in Primates, volume 9",
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        },
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          "ref": "1973, Folia Primatologica, page 460",
          "text": "It is interesting to note in this regard that the alpha female slapped the beta female, but only displayed toward the delta female.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Primate Behavior: Developments in Field and Laboratory Research, page 308",
          "text": "The beta female approaches the delta female who sits with an infant at her chest.",
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