Posted on 07/06/2014 6:09:06 PM PDT by BBell
A DNA expert has has made the bold claim that ginger hair gene could die out if Scotland climate improves.
REDHEADS could become extinct as Scotland gets sunnier, experts have claimed.
The gene that causes red hair is thought to be an evolutionary response to the lack of sun in Scotland.
Redhead colouring allows people to get the maximum vitamin D from what little sun there is.
Only one to two per cent of the world’s population has red hair but in Scotland the figure is about 13 per cent, or 650,000 people.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyrecord.co.uk ...
15 years ago they were saying there would be no more snow in England within 10 years.
#THEYPLAYEDONOURFEARS
If the environweenies have their way about climate change, there will be more to worry about than the end to red heads. The end to Capitalism is in their cross hairs. And, that will end man’s success as a species.
This story is absurd. You’d think scientists would know better. IF we were still living hand-to-mouth in caves, then climate change might prompt natural selection which would eventually get rid of people with pale skin (through dying early with skin cancer, etc.). However, that process would probably take centuries. Plus, natural selection has basically stopped now that we have modern medicine. The gene pool is NOT being cleaned for any reason anymore. The “gingers” will just slather on suntan lotion and keep breeding like everyone else. This story is bogus.
The only way I see extinction of redheads and blonds, etc. in the near-ish future is through lots of interbreeding with darker-complected people, since the paler genes are recessive. But this article doesn’t go into that.
Darwinism and astrology have a lot in common.
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