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Different words that describe exactly the same thing. That is a
general comment. Maybe the word sub species only applies if it has been
scientifically described and published as such with a named holotype somewhere.
But even then they are still races. The only exception that I can think of is
with our own species where you can generally refer to different races or racial
origins of people but if you call them different subspecies, various people may
be offended. However it is often hard to define what it is about these groups.
For example the different forms of Australian Magpie are called both terms. We
identify them by back patterns. However Magpies vary geographically in several
characters that do not necessarily correlate with back
colours.
Philip
I’m trying to ascertain if
there is a difference between the definition of a race and the definition of a
sub species but am getting nowhere. Can anyone help?
Thanks.
John
Layton.
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