Since the original thread went off-topic to a tangent involving subspecies of humans, I moved those posts to their own thread and closed it. Discussions of human subspecies and varieties are often closely related to scientific racism, which is a difficult topic for a forum such as this, and not central to iNat, which doesn’t have a focus on human observations. The first post itself suggests that this may not be a good topic. As such, I’ve closed. If anyone is interested in how Linnaeus treated human variation, which served as some of the foundations for scientific racism, they can check out this review from the Linnean Society: https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus/linnaeus-and-race
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