[Taxacom] Race and taxonomy

[Jim Croft]

sure sounds like 'wimp' to me...

how can you possibly describe the subtlety of Creation without the
nuance and finesse of the subforma?

:)

jim

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Michael A. Ivie <mivie at montana.edu> wrote:
> Too many botanists in this discussion of animal taxonomy ("races" of
> Homo sapiens).  Just follow the Zoologists, forward thinking, brilliant
> people that we are, who don't recognize "race" at all in our
> nomenclature code.  We dropped that infrasubspecific trash eons ago.  We
> can say that human populations vary in biological ways, but a Race is
> something for NASCAR fans.
>
> Mike
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