L. David Mech is an American biologist specialising in the study of wolves. In 1970, he published his book "The Wolf" which documented observations of wolf packs held in captivity. This book is what popularised the notion of there being an Alpha-Beta hierarchy among wolf packs which eventually ended up leading into the Alpha Male manosphere trend we see prevalent on the Internet today. Later on, he came to the realisation and admitted that this research was severely outdated and faulty and that