Are races human subspecies?

E. O. Wilson then challenged the concept from the perspective of general animal systematics, and further rejected the claim that"races" were equivalent to"subspecies". Human genetic variation is predominantly within races, continuous, and complex in structure, which is inconsistent with the concept of genetic human races. read more

Subspecies normally refer to groups which do not interbreed, but with a few exceptions (notably Australian aborigines, becauase of their isolation) human “races” have all been intermixing for many thousands of years. read more