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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Reds rule! If there are any single reds out there looking to tie the knot and be fruitful and multiply, I’m available! ;-p
PS: Unfortunately, I’M not a red...but had a lot of red in my hair when I was a kid, lots of freckles, etc...so we could up the chances of having red progeny. LOL!
Count your blessings as they haven’t posted any Napoleon Dynamite - yet!!
(uh, in that orange suit)
I am a redhead by choice.
Phew, that’s comforting!!!
Redheaded women are the HOTTEST!!!!
What about Ann Margaret?
Red head and Italian! Real la fiama’
Before they sign their first movie contract, they have to consent to a partial lobotomy. That’s true for all actors and actresses.
You know, I just realized Maria Bartiromo has been trying to remind me of Sophia Lauren.
Chelsea is looking better these days.
And there’s only one way to know if they are a true redhead.
reated by a mutation in northern Europe
No, I’m NOT going to take the bait on THAT one!!!
Red on the head
I thought Ann Margaret was Swedish or Norwegen??
The carpet matches the drapes.
very good. I like yours but mine rhymes.
“Some experts say that redheads could be gone as early as 2060, but others say the gene can be dormant for generations before returning.”
It is interesting, and worthy of note in this context, that red hair occasionally manifests naturally in the Hmong of Southeast Asia. A peripatetic people, their original homeland is unknown, but it is widely thought that they came to Southeast Asia via a land route which led them far eastward - possibly from Europe.
“I’ve always had a thing for Julianne Moore.’
Me, too, but I have a generic thing for redheads. After having married and divorced two of them, you’d think I’d learn, wouldn’t you? It’s hard wired, I think. I mean, I cry at Riverdance...
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