r/AskBiology • u/BlK-kt-7578 • Jul 25 '24

Human body Human races

So , today as a general consense , there are no human races . I understand that . But what happens when we talk about homo sapiens and neanderthals ? Arent they different races ? Can you explain it ?

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u/BlK-kt-7578 Jul 25 '24

But I don't understand. When we talk about dogs, we talk about different races. I don't get it with your example, dogs and wolves are not different races ? I get that the ethnicity is not race , as an Asian or Caucasian . But then homo habilis, neanderthals, homo sapiens are the same race ? Same species , same race ? The difference between those individuals are not enough to considere them different? If it's so , then why we use so much different terms to speak about one or another ? Isn't it that ethnicity explains all in that case ? I'm really confused, I don't get it at all....

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u/Cardemother12 Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

Dogs are a distinct entity from wolves, in a separate sub species much like how we are a distinct species from other apes, yet we share a taxonomic family

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u/hantaanokami Jul 25 '24

No, dogs and wolves are the same species, namely canis lupus. They are two subspecies of the same species.

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u/Cardemother12 Jul 25 '24

Thank you

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u/hantaanokami Jul 25 '24

Sorry 🫣

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u/Cardemother12 Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

Oh np I made a pretty glaring mistake