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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8847836" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I am no scientist and I don't think the involved scientific debate about it is terribly relevant (especially since it looks like there are scientist who would classify them as a distinct species). But just looking it up it does appear that they are more typically thought of as a separate species but there is still some ongoing debate. Either way, species or a subspecies, to me that distinction between neanderthals and humans, and between those two and denisovans, seems comparable enough to the kind of difference you have in fantasy worlds between demihuman races for it to basically be species. Again, I think race works too and probably sounds better for fantasy (because I don't think it is being used in the way we use it when we talk race among humans) but if the word is an issue and needs to be changed, species seems to most accurately capture the difference to me between a dwarf and human or a human and an elf. Obviously though it isn't going to connect cleanly to a scientific classification because these are worlds with magic that often rely on mythic explanations of things.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8847836, member: 85555"] I am no scientist and I don't think the involved scientific debate about it is terribly relevant (especially since it looks like there are scientist who would classify them as a distinct species). But just looking it up it does appear that they are more typically thought of as a separate species but there is still some ongoing debate. Either way, species or a subspecies, to me that distinction between neanderthals and humans, and between those two and denisovans, seems comparable enough to the kind of difference you have in fantasy worlds between demihuman races for it to basically be species. Again, I think race works too and probably sounds better for fantasy (because I don't think it is being used in the way we use it when we talk race among humans) but if the word is an issue and needs to be changed, species seems to most accurately capture the difference to me between a dwarf and human or a human and an elf. Obviously though it isn't going to connect cleanly to a scientific classification because these are worlds with magic that often rely on mythic explanations of things. [/QUOTE]

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