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Originally Posted by Ben Franklin
As modern as the 16th century, but people use the term race to separate people, and people today use the term "human race," not "human species."
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Exactly. And what was happening in the 16th C.? Contact with different looking members of the same species. The use of the term race came about as a mechanism to separate the species via cranial type, color, etc. Use of the term race is racist in itself.