March
30th 2011
Posted under Science
Redheads are going extinct due to people with red hair and from red hair endemic regions increasingly outbreeding with mates from regions where red hair is not endemic.
The disappearance of redheads would be a tragedy. It is up to young as yet unmarried redheads to keep our numbers going. If you are redheaded, marry another redhead or at least someone with red hair in their family tree. Our future existence depends on you.
Bede on 30 Mar 2011 at 4:22 am #
Attached to that article is:
“Why blue-eyed boys (and girls) are so brilliant”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-476244/Why-blue-eyed-boys-girls-brilliant.html
Bede on 30 Mar 2011 at 4:26 am #
Red hair is beautiful…
No one knows exactly where it came from….Selection? Bottleneck effect? Neanderthal DNA? Was it attached to another favorable trait?
I agree, though, that we should try to preserve the trait. If can save spotted owls, why can’t we save natural redheads?
RonL on 30 Mar 2011 at 5:23 am #
Being a redhead is the result of recessive genes. Redheads having children with non-redhead spreads the genes. Only redheads not having kids would result in their distinction.
Besides, some of us have a thing for gingers.
Kirt Higdon on 30 Mar 2011 at 10:45 am #
I have redheads in my family and redheads of my acquaintance include a Tex-Mex, a Palestinian Moslem, and a Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christian. I have a little difficulty seeing this as some kind of major crisis.
James William on 30 Mar 2011 at 11:37 am #
This is amusing. I am a red-head, and so is my mother and she always tells me this too.
RedPhillips on 30 Mar 2011 at 12:49 pm #
“Redheads having children with non-redheads spreads the genes.”
This is technically true, Ron, but not practically true. The problem is the recessive gene risks being “spread” to the point of irrelevance. It has to be paired with another recessive gene to be expressed and this most likely happens when two people with a higher likelihood of having the recessive gene produce offspring.
RedPhillips on 30 Mar 2011 at 12:50 pm #
“I have a little difficulty seeing this as some kind of major crisis.”
That’s because you’re Kirt “Naysayer” Higdon.
Bruce on 30 Mar 2011 at 1:35 pm #
Kirt, I think it wasn’t a particuarly serious post. Light-hearted, just for our amusement.
Woden on 30 Mar 2011 at 5:01 pm #
No! It is racist and you all should be arrested for hate speech!
Matt Weber on 31 Mar 2011 at 1:18 am #
I’d say there’s not much hope for the redheads then. Hair color just ain’t what most people look for in a mate.
Kyle K on 31 Mar 2011 at 6:22 am #
Woden’s the real conservative!
Bede on 02 Apr 2011 at 9:33 am #
Kyle K,
I like your new video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5rPXHj1ioo&feature=channel_video_title
carolyn wilson on 19 Feb 2012 at 2:06 am #
I am a reddish blonde felt like a outsider most of my adult life. Been labeled about my haircolor for too long. I feel disrespected ,unappreciated,most of all alone in a crowd.why?
brotherred on 13 Jan 2013 at 5:54 am #
Carolyn:
Be proud of your red hair! Walk tall and take care of yourself!
Don’t let anyone disrespect you!
Ultimately, you are who you think you are!