London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals...

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[fella]

Does anyone have pictures of the ulitmate redhead Maureen O'Hara, in her youth?

[fella]

You were just waiting for someone to ask.

[muir_redwoods]

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[TheLionessRN]

Redheads do NOT have bad tempers, #$^* It!!

[nicmarlo]

my brother has red hair, but he's no fearsome fighter. : )

[missyme]

Cause there isn't any Who has been a knock Out Red-Headed Man
Except Bozo when I was 5.

[sigarms]

"The bottom line is that the Scots, both Lowlanders and Highlanders, like the Irish, and for that matter the English, are an amalgam of several western and northern European peoples."

Agreed.

Yet even though I am an "amalgam", I am perfectly proud of my northern and western European racial heritage.

[NeoCaveman]

I'm a Neanderthal fan, who knew.

[Sam Cree]

I've just been conversing over the years with the guys, and their sister and mom, who own the local tire shop, who are all red haired, Irish, and pretty crazy...nice people, though. Their surname is in my family, so we like talking about Irish stuff.

So, should I read the book?...I recall your stating on a thread once that most Europeans were Celts of one stripe or another? IIRC, you backed it up pretty well.

[Young Werther]

I always like the tale that my Gramma used to tell. It appears that when God was creating hair colors he left the red heads for last. Just as he finished the hair he sneezed! That's why red heads have freckles!

BTW trivial item remembered from a long ago Parade Sunday magazine. Blonds have an avg of 120,000 hair folicles on their scalp. Brunettes average 105,000. Redheads 85,000.

A search of Redhead brings up a host of websites where their is an angst for their downtrodden nature! Wanted to link to an image but these sites won't allow a "view the source" html look see! And at several of the sites you "have to be a redhead to join"! One site vows to "fight redism!"

[muir_redwoods]

"I am a redhead of Scottish decent and I am not comfortable with the idea that a British scientist has attributed red hair to Neanderthals. It smacks of a slur, for some reason."

Don't be insulted. I too am a redhead of Scottish decent and I am proud to carry the genes of a human species, so far, vastly more successful than the so-called modern type. We neanderthals lasted 200,000 years or so.

[investigateworld]

I just finished 'Born Fighting' last week. The ONLY down side to FR is keeping up with all the great books suggested here.
Remember, North Ireland had the right to vote themselves into the Irish Republic according to the various treaties. They declined to do so and remained at the United Kingdom's side during the dark hours of WW2. And let us not forget the 60,000 men who left the Irish Free State to fight Hitler. (Really, who's going to give a war and not invite the Irish?)

[avitot]

grace kelly looked aryan because her mother was german

[TheLionessRN]

thanks for the reply!

I guess the migration of the Scots-Irish to the south explains a lot, since I am also a southern girl.

[Natural Law]

Are you saying that the carpet doesn't always match the drapes?

[cynicom]

I dont think they are all gone. I know a few that would qualify as Neanderthals. One has red hair.

[muir_redwoods]

Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Leonardo DaVinci (yes, an Italian with red hair, rumored to be the most beautiful man in Florence in his youth), George Bernard Shaw and, I believe, Robert E Lee all had red hair

[TheLionessRN]

YW, I have never met a downtrodden redhead in my life and I was one of 5 out of 14 grandchildren.
LOL, maked me want to stomp on you for even thinking such a thing. ;-)

I don't know about the follicle thing. You could pull out half my hair and I would still have thicker hair than most people I know.

[sandydipper]

What about the woodpile theory - Leaves me speechless.