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@Evolving_Moloch · joined 12 Dec 2016

Evolutionary Anthropology. RA @HSB_Lab. Blogs on violence, magic, rituals, deception. https://t.co/vQh5cd0QCr

28 095Followers

973Following

18 197Posts total

525.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views12 421this account1 133median for 10K–100K

Reach, %44.21%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.79%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	12 421	1 133	11.0×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	44.21%	3.62%	12.2×
Engagement rate	1.79%	2.00%	0.90×

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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

65122 Aug

418.7K28 Aug

43.5K

12.4K29 Aug

40K

2.5K30 Aug

7.5K31 Aug

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.54%22 Aug

1.89%28 Aug

4.08%

1.93%29 Aug

0.51%

1.80%30 Aug

0.88%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes91.5%9 484 in total

Reposts3.8%396 in total

Replies2.9%303 in total

Quotes0.6%58 in total

Bookmarks1.2%124 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.

Latest posts

“Perhaps their most outstanding tools are their large, powerful bows (over two yards in length) and arrows (two to three yards long). A bow takes about three days to make—one day to find one of the half-dozen types of acceptable bow wood and two days to shape and scrape the bow. 7.5K views · 63 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The slave captain Samuel Gamble’s depiction of Baga rice cultivation, c. 1793 https://t.co/PVyitksMvh 2.5K views · 38 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

You can read Everett’s book and see that while he definitely does emphasize their immediacy of experience, many of these claims are maliciously dishonest. For example they can and do preserve meat when traveling far distances, they just don’t do so often. They do have nuclear htt 40K views · 183 likes · 11 reposts · 6 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

A bunch of exaggerated nonsense. Clear examples of singing, dancing and jewelry. You can accept Everett’s gloss of their outsized emphasis on immediacy of experience without lying about them https://t.co/sVwBEypKvr 12.4K views · 217 likes · 13 reposts · 9 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Ohh and they have no art. No representative arts like painting or sculpture, no body art or jewelry. They don’t have musical instruments or sing, although their language sometimes has a sing song quality, they have no dancing no stories to tell by the fire. 43.5K views · 1.7K likes · 17 reposts · 13 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

“immediacy of experience” is the inability to process abstract thoughts. The piraha have no words for father or mother, just one that means parent. They have no ancestry or myths. They have no formal families at all. No marriage ceremonies, couples breaking away at will. https: 418.7K views · 7.2K likes · 351 reposts · 269 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I think he’s getting way too much criticism for what seems to me to be a totally innocuous thesis introduction and not nearly enough for the lame mischaracterization of hunter-gatherer societies! https://t.co/ng2OXqswtN 651 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 22 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

New open access paper - 'A Deceptive Curing Practice in Hunter-Gatherer Societies', exploring what I suspect is one of the oldest and most widespread healing practices/'magic tricks' in the world https://t.co/RK3uCkAAPN https://t.co/kybqNoUX8j 0 views · 316 likes · 72 reposts · 14 replies 11 Aug 2022 · Open on X →