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whatever outcome you're interested in, in this case,
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they were interested in eating.
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What they found here is
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that they compared females in this particular study
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and looked at the dominant versus subordinate ones.
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Both groups could eat all they wanted whenever they wanted
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because food was freely available,
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that's what the ad lib means.
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The subordinates ate less, but not a lot less,
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than the dominant monkeys,
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and the researchers hypothesized that this
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might be due to the stress of