What is a biological race or subspecies and how is it determined?
A biological race or subspecies of a species is a population that is distinguished from other biological races/subspecies of this species by the following criteria: Each race has developed in a unique geographic location. Uniqueness does not imply non-shared environmental variables with the geographic location of other races. Each race has a unique natural history. Members of a race share a set of phylogenetically concordant phenotypic characters. Phylogeny refers to evolutionary relationships; the more recent the last common ancestral population, the closer two populations are phylogenetically. The phenotype refers to physical appearance, behaviors and other manifestations of gene expression. There is recognizable phylogenetic partitioning between the races. Evidence for phylogenetic distinction must normally come from the concordant distributions of multiple, independent genetically-based traits. The above criteria are the standard phylogeographic criteria for race or subspecies assi
