As for gender identity: the way the OP framed it made me think that you had the primary gender division between male and female, and then subdivisions in each gender around alpha, beta, etc. But what happens if you're gender fluid and that initial division is not as strong? Are you a beta female and an alpha male at the same time, for instance? Also, inasmuch as the theory works (and I'm with others who have already said its probably too limited for people), its a sort of group dynamics thing, right? So the "jostling for position" is dependent not only on your view of yourself, but on how other people view you. Do physiological males that identify as female even play the alpha/beta/etc game with females? How does it change things? I would think that it would change them, but I don't know how.