Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?

Toby Cockcroft (hegeman@wchat.on.ca)
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:03:57 -0400

In article <54h6ls$g5j@clarknet.clark.net>, frank@clark.net () wrote:

>Remember now, that I'd like a definition of race that is not effectively
>equivalent to species,

By putting restrictions like this on the argument you have already
predetermined the outcome in your favour, this is rather poor science you
must allow for responses and definitions that do not fall within your
ideology.

>and I'd also like to have some examples of species that can be clearly
demarcated into races

To my knowledge there aren't any.

>other examples of species that clearly cannot

Homo sapiens sapiens

>and then where man is situated along the continuum.

I would say that Humans are rather typical in this respect to other species.

Toby

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Toby R. G. Cockcroft MA (in progress)
Dept. Of Anthropology
Univerity of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Canada
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