On The Presumed Right of Nations to Uplift and Civilize Darwin theorized that species evolved, mutated to become an improved version of themselves. The finches that he studied are a famous example of this. From Darwinism came a social, humanity-centric idea that had brewed for years, but could suddenly use science as some sort of basis, twisting the evidence to fit one very specific premise: that some people, some cultures, are simply more evolved and, by extension, more apt to survive. Like a tree growing particularly vicious, invasive…