From: Christian Thalmann (cinga@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 01:42:29 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Costentin Cornomorus
<elemtilas@y...> wrote:
> > Actually, Homo Sapiens Sapiens is the
> > *species*, not the
> > race. Race is a genetic subdivision within a
> > species, e.g. "Caucasian".
>
> I've never seen any data to support this (that
> there are discrete, genetically marked "races"),
> though I've seen the claim made many times. Just
> what constitutes the "Caucasian" race, anyway?
It's unquestioned that all contemporary humans belong
to the same subspecies, that being homo sapiens sapiens.
I was under the impression that "race" was an even lower
taxonomic level of distinction, e.g. the dog races,
which all belong to the subspecies canis lupus familiaris.
I've read about alleged minute metabolic and physiological
criteria which would allow a definition of race, though it
would not exactly coincide without our perceived
color-based categories. ;-) It's hard to find any hard
facts amongst all those "religious science" web pages that
google up under those keywords.
-- Christian Thalmann
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