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Steve Stewart-Williams

@stevestuwill.bsky.social
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Psychology, evolution, science. 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). www.stevestewartwilliams.com

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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"By four years of age, girls tend to think that boys are academically inferior to them… Teachers often see their female students as academically superior… even when aptitude tests show the opposite pattern for their classes." www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/sex-differ...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OK, let's go! The first negative review of my book A Billion Years of Sex Differences. It's by Cordelia Fine, so kind of a foregone conclusion. Rebuttal on the way! theconversation.com/how-has-evol...
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How has evolution shaped men’s and women’s minds? A new book tells an outdated story
Psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams’ third book about evolutionary psychology is A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women.
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
HT @stevestuwill.bsky.social who summarized it in a TL;DR:🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/20915...
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Thread by @SteveStuWill on Thread Reader App
@SteveStuWill: 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…
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Many human problems—from allergies to low fertility—can be seen as evolutionary adaptations clashing with rapid technological and socioeconomic progress. Fascinating paper by Yong et al maps these issues and sets out ways to address this ‘polycrisis’: buff.ly/4nisqgY
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here's something a bit different than my usual Subst@ck offerings: Sixteen fun facts about me. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/sixteen-fu...
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Sixteen Fun Facts About Me
Rock stars, coin flips, and roads not taken
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-...
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12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ
There's a lot of IQ misinformation out there
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Four Horsemen of the Evolutionary Apocalypse My latest appearance on the Modern Wisdom podcast, plus a new review and a new interview about A Billion Years of Sex Differences www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-four-h...
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The Four Horsemen of the Evolutionary Apocalypse
My latest appearance on the Modern Wisdom podcast, plus a new review and a new interview about A Billion Years of Sex Differences
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New interview about A Billion Years of Sex Differences in the Swedish magazine Kvartal. I don't speak a word of it myself, so I can't vouch for anything I said - but the artwork is cool! kvartal.se/henrikhojer/...
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Tusentals år av könsskillnader – Kvartal
Det finns bara två kön.
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nice brief review of A Billion Years of Sex Differences in The Journal of Peace Research. www.prio.org/journals/jpr...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Nice - I didn't realize this had even been accepted for publication! An interview with me in Skeptic magazine: "We Can't Just Lie About Sex Differences." www.skeptic.com/article/is-e...
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We Can’t Just Lie About Sex Differences
Steve Stewart-Williams addresses misconceptions about evolutionary psychology, refutes charges of pseudoscience, and discusses the political and ethical risks of denying biological sex differences, ad...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New review of A Billion Years of Sex Differences just dropped! “Measured, timely, and informative… essential reading.” -Jerry Coyne www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/a-billion-...
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Quillette @quillette.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
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Sex Differences Above the Neck
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A Billion Years of Sex Differences: The Story So Far ...plus a new review in Quillette and my latest podcast appearance www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/a-billion-...
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A Billion Years of Sex Differences: The Story So Far
...plus a new review in Quillette and my appearance on the Michael Sartain Podcast
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
On the front page of the Skeptic magazine website 🤟 www.skeptic.com
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"[T]his is an important book. In A Billion Years of Sex Differences, Stewart-Williams is making a more profound argument: magnifying or minimising sex differences doesn’t just ignore science, it leads to harm." www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/ignoring-s...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We Can't Just Lie About Sex Differences My interview with Skeptiker magazine [No paywall] www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/we-cant-ju...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“It’s ironic that, in an age where we rightly celebrate differences and diversity, we often get outraged when anyone points any out. Not exactly tolerance of diversity!” An excerpt from my recent op-ed in The Independent. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/why-we-can...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Nice - A Billion Years of Sex Differences made the New Zealand Listener's list of the best books of 2026 so far! www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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Winter books special: The best books of 2026 so far - and the gems still to come
Books editor Mark Broatch and Listener reviewers on 100 must-read titles.
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Some behind-the-scenes photos from the Modern Wisdom roundtable I took part in while I was in Austin. Out soon!
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Some photos from my recent appearance on the Modern Wisdom podcast with Chris Williamson. We had a great conversation about my book A Billion Years of Sex Differences, evolutionary psychology, and why discussions of sex differences are still controversial. YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=roXX...
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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Heh, this may be one of my all-time favorite take-downs of the IAT... 😸🔪"widespread metaphoric alignments between darkness and evil contaminate scores on Black-White race IATs... the race IAT may tend to deceive rather than illuminate... metaphors of dark and light have existed for millenia"
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A downside of conceptual metaphor: metaphoric alignments of black and white - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Conceptual metaphor theory supposes that metaphor underlies much of human understanding. The implicit association test (IAT) has recently been used to quantify metaphoric alignments, like black and wh...
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Peter Hoskin @pghoskin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My How To Academy interview with the evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams goes live at 1800 this evening. Please tune in! howtoacademy.com/events/how-e...
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18th June | How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women
How do men and women differ? Where do these differences come from? And how do they shape modern life? Evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams tells us more.
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New Zealand Herald (Unofficial) @nzherald.nzcow.com · 31/05/2026
📢 Dr Steve Stewart-Williams says women have always worked throughout history.
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‘Trad wives’ are a myth as women have always worked, expert says
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gwup | die skeptiker @gwup.org · 10/06/2026
Soll sich #Wissenschaft zensieren, wenn ihre Ergebnisse nicht dem #Zeitgeist entsprechen? 🔭🚫 "Wir können darüber nicht einfach lügen", sagt Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams, Professor für #Psychologie an der University of Nottingham Malaysia. Es gelte, Wahrheit verantwortungsvoll zu kommunizieren. 1/2
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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A Billion Years of Sex Differences by Steve Stewart-Williams review – what we get wrong about men and women A psychologist wades into controversial territory in this counterintuitive study of nature, nurture and gender According to the evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams, almost...
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A Billion Years of Sex Differences by Steve Stewart-Williams review – what we get wrong about men and women
A psychologist wades into controversial territory in this counterintuitive study of nature, nurture and gender
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gwup | die skeptiker @gwup.org · 10/06/2026
Our interview with Prof. @stevestuwill.bsky.social is also available in English: • what evolutionary #psychology actually claims • how it can deepen our understanding of human nature • how #skeptics should respond when #science becomes politically unwelcome 📰 www.gwup.org/skeptiker-ar...
"We can't just lie about this." – Prof. Steve Stewart-Williams, Ph.D., Psychologist
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 15/06/2026
Reading @stevestuwill.bsky.social and it seems quite moderate to me (but ofc I am not exactly the average reader). Really many sociologists/socio-cultural anthropologists would disagree? I would think a small percentage...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A century of evidence tells us men and women are different – let’s stop pretending they’re the same A piece I wrote for The Independent discussing my new book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences www.independent.co.uk/life-style/m...
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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What are sex differences, and why do they matter? Learn about that in my interview with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams (@stevestuwill.bsky.social) about his great new book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences. #Psychology #Science Full interview: youtu.be/_-_-qdDjyVw
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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What is the best approach to deal socially with sex differences? Learn about that in my interview with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams (@stevestuwill.bsky.social) about his new book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences. #Psychology #Science Full interview: youtu.be/_-_-qdDjyVw
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#1264 Steve Stewart-Williams: A Billion Years of Sex Differences
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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New episode (1264), with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams (@stevestuwill.bsky.social). We talk about his new book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences. #evolutionarypsychology #Psychology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/_-_-qdDjyVw Podcast: bit.ly/4az1X0k
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#1264 Steve Stewart-Williams: A Billion Years of Sex Differences
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
BTW, there's a musical Easter egg in Chapter 1. Can anyone spot it?
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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. It's available in hardback www.swiftpress.com/book/a-billi... ...and audiobook www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Billion... Check out some early reactions to the book below!
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
An Evolutionary Enigma Same-sex sexual orientation is biological but largely non-genetic www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/an-evoluti...
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An Evolutionary Enigma
Same-sex sexual orientation is biological but largely non-genetic
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This stag beetle is a bilateral gynandromorph: The left half of its body is male; the right half is female. I explore bilateral gynandromorphism in my new book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences - out tomorrow! swiftpress.com/book/a-billi...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Keeping It Casual, Part 2 The nature and nurture of sex differences in sexual psychology www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/keeping-it...
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Keeping It Casual, Part 2
The nature and nurture of sex differences in sexual psychology
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Join me for champagne, cake, and philosophy at the How the Light Gets In festival in Hay-on-Wye. Starts at 3:30pm on May 23rd. I'll be discussing my forthcoming book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences. howthelightgetsin.org/events/champ... @howthelightgetsin2.bsky.social
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
My next book, A BILLION YEARS OF SEX DIFFERENCES, is now at the printer! It tackles one of the most controversial questions in science: how and why men and women differ. Here's the final cover and some early reactions. You can preorder it here: swiftpress.com/book/a-billi...
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Breaking-Bad Effect, Suicidal Tortoises, and the Genetics of Intelligence in Dogs www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-breaki...
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The Breaking-Bad Effect, Suicidal Tortoises, and the Genetics of Intelligence in Dogs
The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Linkfest for February 2026
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Just a few hours left! Get 25% off my forthcoming book A Billion Years of Sex Differences when you pre-order from Waterstones. Use the promo code FEB26 at checkout. t.co/D8nZfmAvgI
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
My Top 10 Posts of 2025 ...and reflections on my second year on Substack www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/my-top-10-...
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My Top 10 Posts of 2025
...and reflections on my second year on Substack
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
12 Things Everyone Should Know About Animal Behavior My latest post on Substack! www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-...
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12 Things Everyone Should Know About Animal Behavior
Why evolution is the greatest show on Earth
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
'Tis the season to get 20% off a premium subscription to The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter! This is the last deal I'm planning to offer for a while - so if you're tempted, act now... www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/christmas-...
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Christmas Special
'Tis the season to get 20% off a paid subscription to The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter
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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🔪"The implicit bias industry may be thriving, but the science underlying it is not."
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Top 12 Viral Graphs Featured in The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/top-12-vir...
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Top 12 Viral Graphs Featured in The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter
The people have spoken
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Why Implicit Bias Training Doesn't Work: Five Reasons to Be Skeptical www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/why-implic...
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Why Implicit Bias Training Doesn't Work
Five reasons to be skeptical
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What Should We Do About Sex Differences? The fifth excerpt of my forthcoming book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/what-shoul...
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What Should We Do About Sex Differences?
The fifth excerpt of my forthcoming book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Nine Fascinating Findings from Personality Science Surprising links between personality, success, and everyday life My latest post on Substack! www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/nine-fasci...
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Nine Fascinating Findings from Personality Science
Surprising links between personality, success, and everyday life
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Steve Stewart-Williams @stevestuwill.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We Need to Talk About Sex Differences On the Dangers of Exaggerating or Minimizing Differences Between Men and Women The fourth excerpt from my forthcoming book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/we-need-to...
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We Need to Talk About Sex Differences
The fourth installment of the first chapter of my forthcoming book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences
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