The Evolution Lie

The Evolution Lie: Science, Racism, and the Global Dehumanization of Black Lives

For generations, science has been presented as neutral truth-objective, apolitical, and separate from the moral failures of history. The Evolution Lie challenges that assumption by tracing how evolutionary theory and racial science were used to rank humanity, justify empire, and normalize the global dehumanization of Black lives.

From the Enlightenment through Darwinism, colonial anthropology, and eugenics, scientific authority repeatedly framed Black people as less evolved, less capable, and closer to nature than to civilization. These ideas did not remain in textbooks or laboratories. They shaped colonial policy, education systems, medical practice, and law across Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe.

While biological race has been formally rejected, the logic behind it never disappeared-it adapted. Today, the same hierarchy resurfaces through intelligence testing, medical algorithms, predictive policing, population genetics, and global health narratives, often hidden behind data, statistics, and claims of objectivity.

This book is not anti-science. It is an evidence-based examination of how science has been shaped by power-and how claims of neutrality have been used to disguise inequality as natural difference. Drawing on historical documents, scientific texts, global case studies, and the work of Black scholars who challenged race science, The Evolution Lie exposes the continuity between past racial theories and modern technocratic systems.

Inside, readers will explore:

• How evolutionary theory became a justification for empire and racial hierarchy

• The rise of eugenics and its global assault on Black reproduction

• The "Ape Myth" and the scientific construction of Black dehumanization

• The persistence of racial science in medicine, data, and technology

• Why these ideas endure-and who benefits from them

• The intellectual resistance that dismantled race biology and reclaimed Black humanity

Written for general readers, educators, and scholars, The Evolution Lie confronts one of the most enduring myths of modern history: that inequality is biological, inevitable, and beyond moral responsibility.

This is a book about science-but also about power, history, and the urgent need to tell the truth about how knowledge has been used to shape who counts as human.