Redheads, beware! Your great-great grandchildren may never have the chance to be called “Carrots.”
According to a recent article in The Seattle Times, redheads may be extinct by the 22nd century.
Only 4% of the population carries the red hair gene. But if they marry someone with a more dominant hair color gene, the likelihood of them having a dozen little redheaded children greatly diminishes.
So wear your freckles like a badge of honor. Carry your red head like a flaming torch. And start having those dozen little redheaded children.
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I suppose it would behoove redheads to marry other redheads, thereby begetting progeny who carry the recessive gene. If only life were that simple.
The world just wouldn’t be the same without any redheads in it.
That sounds exactly like what has been said about blondes:
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/blondes.asp
I’ve no doubt that many unpredictable and beautiful variations in humanity’s appearance will occur over the course of the next few centuries, though I hope many more will happen in our minds and hearts. So keep enjoying and creating beauty whereever you may!
i dont think redheads can die out actually ive been seeing more as i get older. i must have two redhead genes both of my grandmothers had red hair and i came with it i hope i have a little redhead baby when i have children. : )