RE: A question about race and double standards in Humans
September 21, 2015 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2015 at 11:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
In my AO, we'd call the difference between hn and hs a "variety" - hence the term garden variety, lol. IDK why either hs or hn would classify as subspecies..since neither is geographically isolated -as such- (and apparently they weren't isolated geographically -or- reproductively relative to each other). I know that zoologists don't recognize variety....but I can't understand for the life of me why not. I suppose that subs are supposed to handle what variety handles for plants, fungi..etc.....but going by their description of a subspecies - it's hard to point to those two reps and say subspecies. Subspecies -of what-, and by what metrics?
The whole things becomes a wash with the progression of time, otoh...since we'll just have to keep adding rungs to the "bottom" of the ladder, or to the outer branches of the bush, if we persist in classifying things as they continue to diverge, or redefining what we mean by each term as it gets more and more crowded. Taxonomy is just a snapshot in time, after all...hehehe.
The whole things becomes a wash with the progression of time, otoh...since we'll just have to keep adding rungs to the "bottom" of the ladder, or to the outer branches of the bush, if we persist in classifying things as they continue to diverge, or redefining what we mean by each term as it gets more and more crowded. Taxonomy is just a snapshot in time, after all...hehehe.
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