<p>Banish the term race then. Subspecies, lineage, clade, population if you prefer. It is unfortuate that that the word race is so loaded with meaning. It is a good taxonomic shorthand for subspecies as long as you are talking about say canids as opposed to hominids but as soon as you get near the critters that walk upright, even 200,000 year old ones…</p>
<p>Yes the geneticists have pretty much blasted apart any practical definition of race except for geographically isolated populations but the term is still used in various ways with various meanings by scientists from different disciplines and while looking at the molecular level you cannot tell a domesticated dog from a wolf they still bahave quit a bit differently so whatever the eminent geneticist said taxonomists will still have Rover as a subspecies or a race of Canis lupus.</p>