Mercnbeth
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Due to a bizarre genetic game persons with red hair and fair skin are at risk to become an endangered species...the redheads, that is the real redheads, o Pel di Carota, for centuries butt of jokes and regularly teased, but in reality, are fascinating women, sensual and alas, on their way to extinction. This was stated by an alarming study carried out by the Oxford Hair Foundation, declaring that original redheads, are rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. This is all due to a trick caused by Mother Nature. These women, according to scientists, represent up to today only 1% of the world population, these numbers annotated this declination in the last 50 years...Why are there fewer copper toned heads in this world? The answer arrives from genetics: hair color is determined by a gene which has 40 variations, in which only 6 give the color red. In addition, it is also a recessive gene: in order for offspring to have red hair, he or she has to inherit not one, but two of these genes, one from each parent, otherwise the other gene would dominate the other, and therefore determine another hair color... excerpt from article found here: http://www.fashionrome.com/newsdetail.php?id_novita=108
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