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Title: Will rare redheads be extinct by 2100?
Post by: Foxy Brown on January 19, 2007, 07:14:54 PM: If predictions by the Oxford Hair Foundation come to pass, the number of natural redheads everywhere will continue to dwindle until there are none left by the year 2100. (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2002266852_redhair09.html)
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Post by: chera on January 19, 2007, 08:18:00 PM: ... even given redheads' famous sexual appetite? :P
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Post by: wildstarr on January 19, 2007, 08:41:28 PM: heh...thank god I'll be dead by then! Red-heads are my weakness...
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Post by: Amplifier on January 19, 2007, 09:39:09 PM: A world without redheads isn't a world I want to live in.
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Post by: Peacimowen on January 20, 2007, 07:07:04 AM: Agreed! <3 redheads
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Post by: xerony on January 20, 2007, 11:41:18 AM: because the gene for red hair is recessive...(genes can be dominant and recessive over each other)
it's likely to disappear slowly, just like blond hair. Or blue eyes
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Post by: tamatron on January 20, 2007, 12:47:40 PM: I suggest Eric Stoltz and Allison Hannigan should reproduce a bunch of hot redheads together for the redhead poplulation.
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Post by: sid_coz on March 13, 2007, 12:33:51 PM: Quote from: tama-chan;287719
I suggest Eric Stoltz and Allison Hannigan should reproduce a bunch of hot redheads together for the redhead poplulation.

Thats a good idea.
I also came across an article which suggested that the natural Blondes too shall go extinct in another 200 years. It even predicted that the last one to come out shall be from Norway owing to the largest population of blondes being there. It said it had to do with some gene pool changing of humans and evolution is the driving force. They had study results and all as well!
Well blondes are known to be dumb but i guess this is taking the joke a bit too far!!!!

to say again.... the reasons mentioned in this article are the same given for the Blondes as well!
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Post by: jkto on March 13, 2007, 04:31:51 PM: i dun tink that it will really be wiped out by 2100 as the gene may lay dormant until a few generations later it will pop out again... but as far as the numbers are concerned they will be very rare...
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Post by: Baron American on March 13, 2007, 11:25:03 PM: Quote from: xerony;287699
because the gene for red hair is recessive...(genes can be dominant and recessive over each other)
it's likely to disappear slowly, just like blond hair. Or blue eyes

This is somewhat true.

Yes, there are recessive and dominant genes, but recessive genes don't necessarily disappear just because there's a dominant gene. In terms of genetics, dominant just means a gene can express itself without matching with another. It can override the instructions of a recessive gene if it's paired with one. As long children inherit recessive genes from their parents, whether it expresses itself in the phenotype or not, and their children get it from them, recessive genes don't disappear and will, eventually, be matched up with it's complementary.

The gene for red hair is considered to be recessive. However, there is evidence that it may possess "incomplete dominance," meaning it essentially compromises with whatever genes it's matched up with and tries to express itself regardless of what color the hair really is. This explains why there are so many shades of red hair (strawberry blondes like Nicole Kidman, for example).
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Post by: Asmodai on March 14, 2007, 12:54:13 AM: Aww. I like redheads. Particularly asian girls who've dyed their hair mahogany. :)
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Post by: Masabi on March 14, 2007, 12:55:25 AM: ^ Yep, so even if they don't show the red hair gene at all, the gene is still there and if two people with recessive red hair gene have a child they could still possibly have a red haired child. So that's why I'm a little skeptical that it will "disappear".
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Post by: Angelus on March 14, 2007, 01:12:47 AM: Imagine being the last person with red hair.

Oh well, people will always dye their hair.
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Post by: prettylovely1 on March 14, 2007, 01:36:31 AM: Long Live the carrot tops! mate Redheads MATE NOW!
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Post by: xtree on March 14, 2007, 01:55:53 AM: good thing we have famous red heads preserved in the media

go conan o'brien king of all red heads
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Post by: max1234530 on March 14, 2007, 02:09:49 AM: There's always hair dye XDD
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Post by: Mayo on March 14, 2007, 04:25:32 AM: I was auburn as a baby. I'm sure I'll be able to give my kids auburn hair. >.>
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Post by: ambidextrouness on January 09, 2012, 08:34:06 AM: WTF?! Really?! EXTINCT?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! My quest (http://eatmoreofus.tumblr.com/) for evil carrots shouldn't be over like this if I'll age that far!!