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Long shadow of Linnaeus's human taxonomy

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Your 15 March issue honouring Carl Linnaeus brings to mind what is probably his most significant contribution to modern life: the idea that groups of people can be regarded as naturally distinct taxonomic entities, or subspecies, in the same fashion as species, genera and higher categories.

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Marks, J. Long shadow of Linnaeus's human taxonomy. Nature 447, 28 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447028a

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    Me, Homo sapiens comment-primus! All who follow = Homo devictus!

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