Verkkodominance and prestige represent evolved strategies used to navigate social hierarchies. Dominance is a strategy through which people gain and maintain. Verkkothis chapter highlights two strategies—dominance and prestige—that have played a critical role in regulating human social rank hierarchies throughout history. Verkkoin the domain of social hierarchy, two key strategies possessed by humans are dominance and prestige. Both reflect suites of functionally coordinated mechanisms inherited by human ancestors, and both reflect viable routes to. Verkkotogether, these findings demonstrate that dominance and prestige are distinct yet both viable strategies for ascending the social hierarchy, consistent with. Verkkotogether, these findings demonstrate that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable strategies for ascending the social hierarchy, consistent with evolutionary. Verkkoin this review, we provide an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of dominance as a concept within evolutionary biology, discuss the.