All life operates this way in "Collectives".
There is say an overall Collective of birds - and then subdivisions such as
Eagle or Sparrow. Many collectives form one overall large collective.

With humans it is the same. There is the overall human collective and then
there are five subdivisions. Jewish, black, white, brown and yellow.
Each of these collectives have their own distinct characteristics, the same
as the eagle does compared to the sparrow.
There are many subdivisions of the bird collective.
And only five of the human collective.
With elephants there are only two.

Dogs do not count due to interference in nature by humans.
The cross breeding and many breeds of dog from the formerly once wild and
natural wolf was caused by the selfishness, cruelty, and bad taste of the
human.