You seem to be confused about the words 'race' and 'species' You...

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    You seem to be confused about the words 'race' and 'species'
    You need to get a dictionary. Anyway, here's an excerpt of the definition for the word race:
    noun
    1.
    a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
    2.
    a population so related.
    3.
    Anthropology.
    1. (no longer in technical use) any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics.
    2. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, especially formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.
    3. a socially constructed category of identification based on physical characteristics, ancestry, historical affiliation, or shared culture:
      Her parents wanted her to marry within her race.
    4. a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.
    4.
    a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic lineage:
    the Slavic race.
    5.
    any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.:
    the Dutch race.
    6.
    the human race or family; humankind:
    Nuclear weapons pose a threat to the race.

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    ps: although humankind is considered a race, homo sapiens is a species
    Last edited by ByronB: 02/03/16
 
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