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As I understand it, Jinn-- and clearly you are the scientist among us, so I am happy to take your correction-- the subspecies that you are referencing are, as will has pointed out, phenotypes, and not genotypes. Please correct me if I am wrong, but if the subspecies in question were variations in genotype, would there not be more radical divergence between the subspecies than the minor alterations in skin tone, body fat distribution, hairiness, and so forth which characterize the various types you cite?
In any case, whatever the nomenclature, I believe the point remains essentially the same. Which is to say, "race" is not the proper term for the Jewish people, but rather, ethnoreligious culture.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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