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Gingers extinct in 100 years, say scientists
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Posted on 08/23/2007 5:38:41 AM PDT by Republican Red

REDHEADS are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years, according to genetic scientists.

The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than two per cent of the world's population has natural red hair, created by a mutation in northern Europe thousands of years ago.

Global intermingling, which broadens the availability of possible partners, has reduced the chances of redheads meeting and producing little redheads of their own.

It takes only one red-haired parent to produce ginger-headed babies, but two redheads obviously create a much stronger possibility.

If the gingers really want to save themselves they should move to Scotland.

An estimated 40 per cent of Scots carry the red gene and 13 per cent actually have red hair.

Some experts say that redheads could be gone as early as 2060, but others say the gene can be dormant for generations before returning.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dna; freckles; gingergene; helixmakemineadouble; redhair; redheads; scotland
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To: absolootezer0

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21 posted on 08/23/2007 6:16:04 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Always Right

I am a recovering Ginger Addict. For her I would backslide.


22 posted on 08/23/2007 6:16:27 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrat Happens!)
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To: zencat
It's Alicia Witt from movies like Mr. Holland's Opus and Vanilla Sky.
23 posted on 08/23/2007 6:19:26 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: zencat
Actress Alicia Witt. She'll be on Law and Order: Criminal Intent this season.


24 posted on 08/23/2007 6:20:46 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Republican Red

Do these “genetic scientists” get to demand that they see proof positive that the girls really are redheads?
Do they get to do an inspection?
Hmmmm.... sounds like my next occupation!

Hey, baby, trust me. I’m a scientist...


25 posted on 08/23/2007 6:22:12 AM PDT by djf (America welcomes immigrants! Sadly, America welcomes crimmigrants even more...)
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To: Republican Red

This story is complete BS... with only 1 parent needing to have the gene to produce a red headed child, there is ZERO chance that red heads will become extinct.


26 posted on 08/23/2007 6:22:45 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: GraniteStateConservative

Scully went to high school with my oldest son. She is NOT a red head.


27 posted on 08/23/2007 6:23:31 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: Wallace T.

There are lots of redheaded Jews, including the Bible’s King David, and I can assure everyone there will be red-haired Jews 100 years from now.

I believe the London physician “Dr. John Gray” is a creation of the Proctor & Gamble marketing department.


28 posted on 08/23/2007 6:27:50 AM PDT by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

That last one, in the very bottom, is truly breathtaking...

she should let her hair grow out, though.


29 posted on 08/23/2007 6:28:23 AM PDT by djf (America welcomes immigrants! Sadly, America welcomes crimmigrants even more...)
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To: Republican Red
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30 posted on 08/23/2007 6:29:18 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: Republican Red

The author is an idiot!

FIRST, although many inhabitants of the British Isles are red-headed, red-headedness comes from a genetic mutation which has occurred many times. Red-headedness was once a *Jewish* stereotype! This stereotype has been purposely forgotten because of its close association with anti-semitism, but close family friends of ours were very middle-eastern-looking (deeply olive skin, etc.) Jewish people with gloriously bright red hair. Even black people can have red hair, freckles, etc.

Famous non-Northern European red-heads:

Napoleon Bonaparte, Cleopatra, Christopher Columbus, King David of Israel-Judea, Bette Midler, Ramses II, Malcom X. Judas and Salome were also said to have red hair, but it’s hard to know whether this legend is the result of anti-semitic stereotyping, or the cause of it. (IOW, was Judas stereotyped as having red hair, because he was an archetypical Jew (even his name simply means “Jew”), or does the stereotype exist to link associate all Jews with Judas?)

(Of course, America could almost be said to be a ginger conspiracy too: Columbus, Washington, Jefferson and many other founding fathers and early presidents were all red-heads.)

Since ginger is a recessive trait that experiences heavy interference from other genes, you don’t even need “day-walker” parents to have a ginger kid.


31 posted on 08/23/2007 6:29:36 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Republican Red
Some experts say that redheads could be gone as early as 2060, but others say the gene can be dormant for generations before returning.

That could cause some big problems in a marriage if the mailman has red hair.

32 posted on 08/23/2007 6:30:03 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: dangus
Over in Williamsburg Brooklyn there is a Hasidim day care and there are at least 10 kids with red hair.
33 posted on 08/23/2007 6:33:59 AM PDT by JimC214
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To: Republican Red

They won’t be gone, not as long as you can buy red hair in a bottle (as many pictured above have done).

(Real true redheads are not usually great lookers.)


34 posted on 08/23/2007 6:34:18 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: TheRake
"The age old question, Ginger or Mary Ann?"

Pul-eeeze! The correct answer is "both!"

35 posted on 08/23/2007 6:34:56 AM PDT by 50sDad (Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
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To: Teacher317
Well, if we can get them all in one place and arrange a meteor or something like that...

Xenu, Save Us!

36 posted on 08/23/2007 6:35:43 AM PDT by 50sDad (Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
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To: Ditter

you are half-right


37 posted on 08/23/2007 6:37:44 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: 50sDad

Actually you know if you think about it. Howell can’t live forever.....


38 posted on 08/23/2007 6:39:09 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

Which of my statements is not true?


39 posted on 08/23/2007 6:39:23 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

whereas you are 100% silly ; )


40 posted on 08/23/2007 6:39:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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