I hope you realise that you're posting an opinion piece on Business Insider (the best source of information about animal behaviour, no doubt) about one researcher that has an opinion that goes against decades of research in the field. Dominance hierarchies have been observed across multiple species. In many cases subordinate members of groups don't even get to mate unless they use trickery. In terms of non-human primates they're observable in groups of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans etc., so no - this *doesn't* "translate to other species", you're demonstrably wrong. Even if it does not apply to wolves (which is highly debatable), it most certainly applies to other species, particularly primates which we were talking about (and which wolves are not, by the way). You also don't seem to be aware of what a turn of phrase is. When someone says "it's in your blood/genes/DNA" they don't necessarily mean that there's a specific isolated gene that does X, it's a reference to a recurring trait. For instance, if a son of a great driver is also a good driver, you might say "it's in his DNA". That doesn't necessarily mean that we've isolated a magical "driving gene", although in the case of dominance hierarchies you may as well treat it literally, it works both ways.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/...30425_todays_phrase_it_is_in_her_genes1.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy
That's already been explained to him, but he doesn't accept that, so... Shrug?
I'm still unclear how this entire exchange relates to Joe Biden and his presidency though, I sure hope someone will explain the connection soon because, as I've mentioned earlier, all of this talk about "living off the grid" that brought us here seems grossly off-topic.