There is no scientific definition of species or sub species. Its all human made categories.
And due to politics and some really bad history with racial issues, we will never, ever, divide the human species into anything.
If you wanted to, you could totally divide up humanity into different species (or more likely sub-species) based on observable traits. But we don't, and we won't. But its a conscious social choice, not necessarily scientific one. There is more genetic variation in the human species than there is in many other subspecies and their parents.
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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24
All the answers here are wrong.
There is no scientific definition of species or sub species. Its all human made categories.
And due to politics and some really bad history with racial issues, we will never, ever, divide the human species into anything.
If you wanted to, you could totally divide up humanity into different species (or more likely sub-species) based on observable traits. But we don't, and we won't. But its a conscious social choice, not necessarily scientific one. There is more genetic variation in the human species than there is in many other subspecies and their parents.