Look at the listing of subspecies in my previous post:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/general...ml#post2510400
Those are CURRENT subspecies of humans (homo sapiens sapiens). What you seem to be (pedantically) arguing is that without a Linnean classification like homo sapiens sapiens, the subspecies must not exist. This is categorically false, and there hundreds of species which still defy Linnean classification, particularly in entomology.
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...there is a long-accepted phenotypic standard based on "sorting accuracy." Basically, by this standard, if the biologists who specialize in the study of a species can sort two different populations of the species based on phenotype or physical traits with 75% or more accuracy they are considered to be separate races. The authors point out that although races, unlike species, are not discrete, so some phenotypic overlap is to be expected of them, the fact is that there are at least twenty human populations that can be phenotypically distinguished from each other with a sorting accuracy of 100%. By the actual standards applied by biologists to non-human species, that of 75% or more sorting accuracy, there are literally hundreds of separate human races.
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