RE: En: species, subspecies, strains, populations, races etc.

[Scot Gillespie <Scot.Gillespie@epsedin.co.uk>]

Typing as John's entry came in...

We tend to be getting a wee bit away from Apistos on this one. But for the
record, the whole attempts of trying to classify humankind into species,
sub-species, race, the village down the road, has always had overtones of at
the best cultural supremacy, and at the worst, hitler, phol-pot, the slave
trade, and any colonial conquest you can think of. If you want to think of
humankind as Apistos then we are all the one variant. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Piabinha@aol.com [mailto:Piabinha@aol.com]
Sent: 24 November 1999 14:50
To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
Subject: Re: En: species, subspecies, strains, populations, races etc.


In a message dated 11/24/1999 12:35:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Lcrabo@aol.com writes:

> By the way, I believe that humans easily satisfy classical criteria for 
>  subspecies, although we are blurring the lines by moving around so much
in 
>  recent times.  We get around that by calling ourselves different races -
a 
>  category without taxonomic recognition.  However, I'm with Mike W. in 
>  considering all of us to be the same family.

i disagree.  it's not easy at all to distinguish human"races" to classify 
them as "subspecies."  i think we are even more closely related than at the 
"subspecies" level.  and to delineate these distinctions would be close to 
impossible.  the "classical" view of "australoid," "mongoloid," "negroid"
and 
"caucasoid" for example is highly problematic.  we don't know for sure that 
such groupings are legitimate.  are there more groups than those four?
where 
do you delineate the "borders" of such groups in africa, india, russia, 
pacific islands (for example)?

tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA


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