[Physalia]

Ανακαλώ: το race μεταφράζεται σαν ποικιλία (variation ή var.) και όχι σαν υποείδος.
Τα υποείδη του ανθρώπινου είδους είναι μόνο το H. sapiens sapiens και το εκλειπόν H. sapiens idaltu (από τη Wikipedia το βρήκα αυτό )

Τώρα σε ό,τι αφορά τις ποικιλίες, ράτσες κλπ που χρησιμοποιούνται μια χαρά στην ταξινόμηση των ζώων και των φυτών αλλά ανακινούν θύελλες όταν εφαρμόζονται στο ανθρώπινο είδος, καλύτερα μάλλον να διαβάσεις αυτό. Σε καμία περίπτωση πάντως δεν μιλάμε για ράτσες τύπου κινέζος, νέγρος κλπ. Απόσπασμα από το άρθρο που λίνκαρα:

There has been an interesting dialectic between the notion of human races and the use of race as a general biological category. Historically, the concept of race was imported into biology, and not only the biology of the human species, from social practice. The consciousness that human beings come in distinct varieties led, in the history of biology, to the construction of “race” as a subgrouping within species. For a long time the category “race” was a standard taxonomic level. But the use of “race” in a general biological context then reinforced its application to humans. After all, lots of animal and plant species are divided into races, so why not Homo sapiens? Yet the classification of animal and plant species into named races was at all times an ill-defined and idiosyncratic practice. There was no clear criterion of what constituted a race of animals or plants that could be applied over species in general. The growing realization in the middle of the twentieth century that most species had some genetic differentiation from local population to local population led finally to the abandonment in biology of any hope that a uniform criterion of race could be constructed. Yet biologists were loathe to abandon the idea of race entirely. In an attempt to hold on to the concept while make it objective and generalizable, Th. Dobzhansky, the leading biologist in the study of the genetics of natural populations, introduced the “geographical race,” which he defined as any population that differed genetically in any way from any other population of the species. But as genetics developed and it became possible to characterize the genetic differences between individuals and populations it became apparent, that every population of every species in fact differs genetically to some degree from every other population.