From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 02:41:06 EST
Christian Thalmann scripsit:
> 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.
Unless things have changed recently, C. familiaris is reckoned
a separate species. Anyhow, all classifications below the species
level are a matter of degree -- and dispute.
As far as genetic differentiation goes, the DNA
distance between the orangutans on Borneo and the basically
identical-looking orangs on Sumatra is greater than that
of the entire human-chimp-bonobo-gorilla clade. Yet all orangs
constitute a single species.
-- You escaped them by the will-death John Cowan and the Way of the Black Wheel. jcowan@reutershealth.com I could not. --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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