[Taxacom] Race and taxonomy

[Frederick W Schueler]

Frank.Krell at dmns.org wrote:
> As a Commissioner, I agree that us zoo-nomenclators are brilliant since
> race is not in our Code. However, if we look in Torre-Bueno's Glossary
> of Entomology (I have the 1989 edition at hand), race is synonym to
> subspecies.

* and a corollary of Wilson & Brown's 1954 debunking of the classical 
subspecies concept was that there were no human subspecies or "races," 
and therefore racism was a non-concept, since it referenced a 
non-category. As an undergraduate I once saw Bill Brown's wonderful 
slide show of human diversity, answering in the negative the question: 
"Can you classify these into a small number of uniform kinds?"

fred schueler.
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