You are if you have red hair. And there’s more bad news. You are part of a group that will probably be extinct by 2100!
Red hair is the result of a mutation that occurred at some point around the last Ice Age (20,000-50,000) years ago, and is most common in peoples of British and Irish descent.
But according to some, there is a dwindling number of us (full disclosure here, I’m a redhead), probably less than four percent of the world population. And because it’s a recessive mutation, that means that it will be diluted as people with the mutation mate with those who don’t have it.
Of course, by 2100 we will probably have figured out the gene manipulation thing, and we could all have red hair if we wanted.
Just a warning if you do: remember to put on sunscreen.
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