Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

Psychology, evolution, nature/nurture, sex differences, etc. My second book, The Ape That Understood the Universe, hit the shelves in 2018...

United Kingdom
Joined April 2009

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  1. Sep 12

    My new book, THE APE THAT UNDERSTOOD THE UNIVERSE, is officially out! You can read the first chapter here: ...and here's a sample of early reactions to the book... 👇

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  2. 11 hours ago

    So, you know how peacocks have those little crests on their heads? Turns out, they're *vibration sensors*. And they're tuned to the exact frequencies at which peacocks rattle their tails.

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  3. 19 hours ago
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  4. 9 hours ago

    Prejudice based on political affiliation is stronger these days than prejudice based on race, ethnicity, language, or religion

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  5. Aug 5
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  7. Dec 20

    Law of Viral Inaccuracy: There are more ways to misunderstand a thing than to understand it correctly, so the most viral form is probably inside the erroneous set. Your most widely known idea will be distorted. The story about you that the most people have heard will be false.

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  8. Dec 20

    Prenatal hormones trump postnatal socialization: Girls exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb develop male-typical toy preferences even when parents encourage female-typical play.

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  9. Dec 19
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  10. Dec 19

    The Ape that Understood the Universe, do Steve Stewart-Williams. Um dos melhores livros de Psicologia que já li. Faz um argumento incontestável sobre a importância da seleção natural no funcionamento humano atual.

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  11. Dec 20

    That humans are the only species that have sex purely for enjoyment is misleading. All mammals do. Lions are hardly thinking about future lion cubs when skrewing each other. Rather we're the only species who sometimes have sex with the goal of reproduction firmly in mind.

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  12. Dec 20

    Prenatal hormones trump postnatal socialization: Girls exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb develop male-typical toy preferences even when parents encourage female-typical play.

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  13. Dec 19

    This algorithm can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in a video. In this experiment, intelligible speech was recovered from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass

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  15. Dec 19

    Perpetuating the Christmastime suicide myth could hurt prevention and public awareness efforts, according to CDC. Studies from several countries show that rates in December, and on Christmas in particular, actually tend to be the lowest of the year.

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  16. Dec 19

    The Ten Commandments of Logic

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  17. Dec 17

    5 extractos del libro The Ape that Understood the Universe, de

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  18. Dec 18

    How Culture Makes Us Smarter 🧠🚀 “Our ability to acquire knowledge distilled from thousands of years’ worth of thinking, each of us can understand the universe to a degree completely unmatched by even our closest animal kin. ”

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  19. Dec 17
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  20. Earthrise is often labelled as one of the most important and influential photographs in science, if not all of human history.

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  21. Dec 19

    The Ten Commandments of Logic

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