Redheads extinct by 2060!

• TA wrote on 2012-02-06 10:24

  [SIZE="5"]National Geographic says Redheads set for extinction[/SIZE]
  
  Genetic scientists warn that redheads are a dying breed; soon they will become extinct in the next 100 years. National Geographic magazine reports that less than two per cent of the world’s population has the natural red hair.
  There are many famous redheads in history, such as the bard William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus and the Queen Elizabeth, and the more recent ones Peter Beattie, Nicole Kidman, Prince Harry and Michael Voss. But the future doesn’t look bright for the redheads according to the National Geographic article.
  Red hair was created by a genetic mutation in northern Europe some thousands of years ago. The article reports that the gene had the beneficial effect of increasing the body’s ability to cope with sunlight; it helped make vitamin D from Sunlight. But now because of world wide interactions, the today’s carriers are more prone to skin cancer and are more sensitive to heat and cold related pain.
  Because of smaller percentage of redheads present in the population, it has reduced the chances considerably for the redheads to get redhead partner, so their offspring may or may not be a redhead. The redhead can produce a baby from a single redhead parent; the chances become high when both the parents are redhead however.
  Some experts warn redheads could be gone as early 2060, but others say the gene can be dormant in the reproductive system for generations before returning.
  It is too early to predict redhead extinction, more research and analysis needs to be done if that is the case. For more about red hair check the Wikipedia article.

  
  Source: Digital Journal
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-02-06 10:28
  Aww. Redhead women are hot. D:
• Froglord wrote on 2012-02-06 10:37
  Gingers will still exist, it's a trait that repeats its self in a lot of the population.
  
  It could also possibly go extinct in North America only during that time since the populations of middle-easterners is supposed to quadruple by that time making "diversity" as we see it smaller than what it'll actualy be later on.
• TA wrote on 2012-02-06 11:00
  I don't believe it personally, not that quickly. Not when I see a brown haired friend of mine (with no red heads in his family) have a red headed wife and 3 red headed children.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-02-06 11:14
  don't believe so either
  Redheads are a fetish
• Scarlet wrote on 2012-02-06 11:20
  [FONT="Times New Roman"]I doubt redheads will be extinct by 2060; I know someone with read hair, and she probably won't be dead in 48 years...[/FONT]
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-02-06 11:22
  I can't even take this seriously.
  
  Unless they're trying to imply that the redheads who are currently alive will all be hit by trains by 2060.
• Scarlet wrote on 2012-02-06 11:25

  Quote from RebeccaBlack;764764:

  I can't even take this seriously.
  
  Unless they're trying to imply that the redheads who are currently alive will all be hit by trains by 2060.

  
  
  [FONT="Times New Roman"]Actually, they'll use their connections with various criminal organizations all over the world to slowly assassinate all redheads, making them look like accidents....[/FONT]
• Scarlet wrote on 2012-02-06 11:25

  Quote from RebeccaBlack;764764:

  I can't even take this seriously.
  
  Unless they're trying to imply that the redheads who are currently alive will all be hit by trains by 2060.

  
  
  [FONT="Times New Roman"]Actually, they'll use their connections with various criminal organizations all over the world to slowly assassinate all redheads, making them look like accidents....[/FONT]
• Taycat wrote on 2012-02-06 13:40
  I heard something about this a long time ago. Though it said 2016 and not 2060.
  
  This is strange and yet also it makes sense considering the gene for brunette or black hair is stronger than the gene for blonde or red.
• Claudia wrote on 2012-02-07 02:40
  Not going to lie, most of the gingers I know are really annoying.
  
  I'll keep my history teacher, forget about the rest of them.
• Kollin wrote on 2012-02-07 03:43
  Yes, destroy the soulless gingers! JK.
  Increase the likelihood of blonde hair, though that is just my preference for blondes.
• Hiccup wrote on 2012-02-07 08:48
  So many gingers at my work, not even funny.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2012-02-07 10:04

  the today’s carriers are more prone to skin cancer and are more sensitive to heat and cold related pain.

  
  
  This is so true, I can't begin to describe how sensitive I am to heat. What most people can touch normally when heated, I can't without burning myself. I can't even use icyhot because it burns so badly.
  
  

  Quote from Yoorah;764697:

  Aww. Redhead women are hot. D:

  
  
  Oh ho ho~
  
  

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;764754:

  don't believe so either
  Redheads are a fetish

  
  
  We're a fetish?
  
  

  Quote from Claudia;765449:

  Not going to lie, most of the gingers I know are really annoying.
  
  I'll keep my history teacher, forget about the rest of them.

  
  
  </3 RUDE CLAUDIA. I'm a redhead =( I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS. See if I have page long discussions with you anymore </3
• Lan wrote on 2012-02-07 10:13
  Total bull**** :D Red hair is still a gene and will always crop up. I think I remember some people saying the same about how blonde haired people would go extinct ~_~ people need to learn some basic genetics.