Press Reviews

• KATE FOX

  If teaching is what makes humans special, then Adam Rutherford is superhuman - a truly gifted transmitter of knowledge: lucid, enlightening, witty and delightful

• HANNAH FRY

  Adam Rutherford is a master storyteller

• Caroline Sanderson

  THE BOOKSELLER, Editor's Choice

  Timely and accessible

• BILL BRYSON

  Nobody deals with challenging subjects more interestingly and compellingly than Adam Rutherford, and this may be his best book yet. This is a seriously important work

• PETER FRANKOPAN

  Characteristically far-reaching, insightful and brilliant, Adam Rutherford casts his net wide in a book that is as timely as it is invigorating and important

• SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE

  This fascinating, illuminating and original book on human evolution and development is essential reading in an age of false science, resurgent racism and conspiracy theory - and the perfect antidote to racial bigotry

• CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ

  A fascinating and timely refutation of the casual racism on the rise around the world. The ultimate anti-racism guide for data-lovers everywhere

• CLAUDIA HAMMOND

  Adam Rutherford is the perfect writer to arm you with evidence

• JULIA NEUBERGER

  Brilliant, succinct genetics for the uninitiated

• Tom Gatti

  NEW STATESMAN

  A counter-blast to those who would use science to justify prejudice

• COSMOPOLITAN

  Poignant . . . A timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify bigotry and casual racism

• Manjit Kumar

  GUARDIAN

  A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience . . . engaging and enlightening . . . equip[s] the reader with the scientific tools necessary to tackle questions concerning race, genes and ancestry

• Layal Liverpool

  NEW SCIENTIST

  HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST smashes race myths that plague society

• David Crawford

  RADIO TIMES

  Enlightening and entertaining

• THE GLASGOW HERALD

  Admirable . . . The reader will be similarly enriched by the quick blood of this book

• Ben East

  OBSERVER

  Vital

• Hannah Shaddock

  RADIO TIMES

  Dr Adam Rutherford has a gift for making complicated concepts simple

• Julian Cole

  I NEWSPAPER

  One of the most pleasing observations offered by Adam Rutherford, a great communicator who knows how to simplify difficult concepts, is that the racist you are arguing with will themself be far from racially pure

• Francis Wheen

  MAIL ON SUNDAY

  [An] enthralling, illuminating book

• SUNDAY POST

  Elucidating, enabling, and powerful in its simplicity, everyone should have a copy of this book

• Kathryn Paige Harden

  SPECTATOR

  A book that could save lives

• DAVID OLUSOGA

  For centuries science has been used and abused by racists. This book wrests it from their grubby hands by showing that race is biologically meaningless and that modern genetic science is a racist's worst enemy. Along the way Adam Rutherford reveals that you are related to royalty, that every Nazi had Jewish ancestors and that you share no DNA with half your ancestors. A critical book on a critical issue

• Steven Poole

  DAILY TELEGRAPH, Books of the Year

  Stylish and punchy

• Layal Liverpool

  NEW SCIENTIST, Best Books of 2020

  Not only shows what science really says about race, ancestry and genetics, but also helps us argue against the idea that certain people are biologically inferior and encourages informed conversations about race . . . This book's gift is to use science to talk about a pseudoscience

• Thomas Ling

  BBC SCIENCE FOCUS, Best Books of the Year

  How to Argue with a Racist is doubtlessly one of the most important reads of the year. But it's arguably the most interesting too . . . Engaging and thought-provoking throughout

• Big Think

  A remarkable telling of the shared ancestry of the human race. The book is a treasure trove filled with gems of knowledge from the field of genetics and what it knows about skin colour, intelligence, ancestry, athletic ability and racial superiority. The reader is provided the fascinating scientific weaponry to confidently take on questions about race, genes, ancestry. Ultimately, Rutherford's book is a challenge against the manipulation, misrepresentation, and abuse of science to justify hatred and prejudice

• DAILY TELEGRAPH

  Rutherford, a geneticist, debunks racist pseudoscience, showing that everyone's ancestry is cosmopolitan in a stylish, punchy, myth-busting study