Are Redheads as Good as Deadheads?
Redheads could be extinct by the year 2100, according to The Seattle Times. The article cites research by the Oxford Hair Foundation. The Seattle Times calls the foundation an "independent institution," but my internet searches tell me that OHF, independent as it may be, is the research arm of Proctor & Gamble.
Could P&G be hoping for a run on red hair dye products?
CBS also covers mentions the possible extinction in an article on redhead discrimination, but without any alarm.
Only four per cent of the population carries the gene for red hair. With the odds that a red hair gene carrier will marry a non-carrier and since the ginger gene is recessive, we redheads could really become extinct.
My husband (let's call him "Gene") and I both carry the gene, so we certainly would have had redheaded babies.
Did we do humanity a disservice in choosing not to have children? I doubt it.
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posted by Kate @ 9:49 PM
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It's a hoax. A year or two ago, there were also news about possible blond extinction two hundred years from now. You can google it. I first read it in Vanity Fair! The media ate it up because ... they're misinformed journalists and not scientists. And the scientists in the Oxford Hair Foundation? Maybe they're are ginger haters. Give it another few years, and you'll have a group of other scientist revealing they got their calculations all wrong - the way they keep changing whether milk or eggs are suppose to be good or bad for you. How the hell did they get their degree?
I've only taken high school Biology, and initially reading that I already found it ridiculous. There's probably more red heads now than in any other time in history. 4% of 6 Billion people is a LOT of people. I've seen blacks with natural red hair. My friend is half white (her father was a red head) and half Filipina, and her dark hair has a dark red tint. In another life, I would have wanted red hair.
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