Like many other species, including all dinosaurs, redheads are going extinct. Or are they? Research details that redheads may not actually be going extinct like many people popularly believe. The common misconception is that they will “go extinct” by 2060, however, redheads are not going anywhere.
The idea that redheads could go extinct began with news articles relying on information from the Oxford Hair Foundation, which stated that the recessive red hair gene could die out. This is not true. The gene that determines whether someone is a redhead may become rare, but it would not completely vanish. The only way for the world to be left redhead-less would be if all people with the redhead gene within them died or did not reproduce.
Others also believe that redheads may become extinct due to climate change. The managing director of ScotlandsDNA Alistair Moffat argued that the cloudiness would affect the red hair gene. This notion was quickly crushed as many scientists and others proved his ideas wrong.
Redheads are not going extinct anytime soon and will continue to bring their ginger-ness to the world.
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