Steve Stewart-Williams ✓
@SteveStuWill · Malaysia · joined 21 Apr 2009
Author of "A Billion Years of Sex Differences" (2026), "The Ape That Understood the Universe" (2018), and "Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life" (2010).
269 434Followers
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"Sure, we haven’t yet mastered the art of reliably making ourselves happy. But given our stunning successes elsewhere, it’s hard to believe that this is permanently beyond our reach."
https://t.co/yDuW7czDNa
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"The second graph shows something even more intriguing: that a potential romantic partner’s willingness to protect you increases their attractiveness even when they fail to do so."
https://t.co/5jfyLHKRAl https://t.co/1dclg1xxE2
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"People assume that both sexes will be hugely biased in favor of their own sex, when in fact women are only moderately biased in favor of their own sex, and men are moderately biased in favor of women." https://t.co/dacWttYGPb https://t.co/zm0kn3c9Oj
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“I met my wife on the flip of a coin...”
https://t.co/1RdkLEXSoV
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Why Evolutionary Psychology Needs Behavior Genetics, and Vice Versa
Twenty claims about heritability and human nature
https://t.co/hGRzFviVcj
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“What’s going on? Why are you packing?” they asked, gently guiding her back to bed. She responded: “I just saw my parents, and they told me it’s time to go.” She died the next day.
https://t.co/1RdkLEXSoV
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The Deep Primate Origins of Pet Keeping
https://t.co/qvH7EMpDCM https://t.co/OhtRsLyhOl
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@SteveStuWill Strong men who are willing to protect their partners are considered less attractive than average-strength men who are willing to protect their partners? That's interesting.
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@SteveStuWill See cormac maccarthy. The crossing. Genius. https://t.co/r4urREqBVH
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@SteveStuWill Trying to understand this graphic gave me cancer
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How men and women rate other-sex individuals as romantic partners based on their willingness to protect them from a violent attack and their physical strength.
https://t.co/mERtuie3oq https://t.co/XquX66s6K1
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THREAD: A fascinating new paper argues that many of the stresses and strains of modern life are due to a mismatch between the world we evolved in and the world we inhabit today.
The paper’s main ideas can be summed up in two graphs and one table.
https://t.co/yDuW7czDNa [1/6]
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@SteveStuWill The book is a masterpiece. Check out my discussion with Steve on my podcast. We get super deep into the data🤓
Watch here;
https://t.co/rQ2zK79sIJ
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@SteveStuWill Just bought at Waterstones. Excited to read 📚 https://t.co/Xjeso9M54V
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@SteveStuWill Congratulations. https://t.co/8kxvM0UZsg
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My new book A BILLION YEARS OF SEX DIFFERENCES is out today!
It's about the evolution of human sex differences and why they matter.
Available in hardback: https://t.co/fEUph9OgNm
...and audiobook: https://t.co/CQzsoPkxZW
Here's a sample of reactions to the book... 👇 https://t
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@SteveStuWill #Nature is even more over-politicised than #NewScientist.
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@SteveStuWill Maybe a loss of trust in scientists is someone’s primary goal. Does someone other than subscribers financially support Nature? Has there been a dramatic change in its subscriber base?
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@SteveStuWill Why do people think it is kosher for newspapers or scientific bodies to support a particular candidate?
Is it not against the spirit of democracy to be told who too vote for?
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Against accounts of the same size
13 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.
Median views3 299this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %1.22%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.20%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 3 299 | 5 983 | 0.55× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.22% | 1.49% | 0.82× |
| Engagement rate | 1.20% | 0.93% | 1.29× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
2.2K17 Jun
3.2K27 Jul
31.9K23 Aug
9.1K2 Sep
88
230
81
6.6K
3.3K3 Sep
2.3K
5.3K4 Sep
5.3K
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3K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.00%17 Jun
0.22%27 Jul
1.27%23 Aug
1.20%2 Sep
2.27%
1.30%
0.00%
0.95%
0.21%3 Sep
1.32%
0.06%4 Sep
3.18%
2.02%
0.40%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes68.0%1 135 in total
Reposts9.9%165 in total
Replies4.0%66 in total
Quotes1.3%21 in total
Bookmarks16.8%281 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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