This has been studied in monkeys. It's not aneurotypical males, but ones who aren't concerned with maintaining their place in society (typically low and high status males) who think for themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7zoeU3EduY It's less a survival mechanism to avoid being killed, and more a mechanism to avoid being expelled from the group. This is supported by how the NPCs speak and act. They are overly concerned with social signaling, consensus, tattling and appeals to authority. Women and NPCs are much more reliant on the group to carry them, since they are almost always dead weight. They are the 80% in the 80/20 rule. The highly productive members of society tend towards the extremes of status.