Haha I love it! I myself am a ginger and this information is very intriguing! I like to live the oxymoron lifestyle - I am a redhead and I go hunting with my family. Breaking history since the 1980s! I think it's interesting how both parents need to have a piece of the puzzle to conceive a fiery child.

That link sent me into a site that hijacked my browser and would not let me out of some scam sales site.

Originally posted by Myollinir
I myself am a ginger

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!

(wrong thread!)

[edit on 2010/3/19 by Aeons]

This article gave a pretty poor explanation.

What they failed to point out is that humans need the sun to synthesise vitamin D. Darker skin is adapted to hot, sunny climates where there is too much sunlight so vitamin D production isn't a problem but the skin needs to be protected against excessive U.V.. This is done by high levels of melanin. When darker skinned people move to climates with very little sunlight, their bodies can't produce enough vitamin D. Fairer skin absorbs sunlight much better so fairer skinned people are able to produce vitamin D with very little sun. Of course, fairer skinned people don't have the protection against high levels of U.V. as they have almost no melanin.

Oh, by the way, melanin also plays a part in hair colour. Without melanin, I believe many people with dark hair would have reddish hair.

[edit on 19-3-2010 by OZtracized]

I read that it comes from inbreeding.Hence a lot of red hair in royal families.Im a redhead by the way.

Imo whole theory is stupid. 20,000 years for a recessive trait to develop from black hair, with almost no selection pressure.

Makes no sense if you know the basics of genetics.

Is just pop-theory aimed at the leyman.

What !!! ...... "Utter twaddle"

What has the rain got to do with having red hair .....

If this was the case then I do believe that there would be a swarm of red headed people living in Manchester U.K ....


And no... our hair does not go rusty in the rain

The lack of dark skin in redheads is likely more environmental than it is a true connection. The genetics for red hair proliferated in a bottleneck that just happened to be in an area that also favoured pale skin due to lower levels of sunlight. Therefore, the likely link is just shared ancestry, not an actual genetic link. There could be a genetic link, of course, but without proof of this...go with the most logical explanation.

I aloways know i was special.
ps burned like the dickens when i was younger but now am very very tan.
pss in order for a red head to get this tan we have to burn like hades its self for a wile
O and the 2012 this being the end of the world well i translated the @#!#^*^ to mean in the end days there will be two read heads who become one >
meaning they get marryd .and as one destrouction behond hades its self will be unleashed upon the world.
so pp everyone be sure to not get two redhead toghter as the fire of there tempers will surly be your doommmmmmm

[edit on 19-3-2010 by xxcalbier]