Redheads extinct by 2100

Without getting too technical, I knew 3 people from about 100 in in our school grade. So let's assume redheads account for 3% of all people. That's 18 million people who, if they don't marry, will let the red-head gene pool die.

That's an awful lot of people.

But personally I have nothing against red-heads :)

Ok they say that the ginger hair gene is ressesive, so for all i know i could have the ressesive gene for ginger hair but its dominated by my brown hair gene, so if i marry and have children with somebody else with brown hair and a ressesive ginger gene (recap: neither of us would have to have ginger hair) then theres a quater possibility of producing a child with ginger hair.

Therefore i very much agree that they will become rarer over time, but exstinct? I very much doubt. The problem with that article is they didn't make the distinction between pure homozygous ressesives and the heterozygous ressesives who show the phenotype of brown/black/blonde hair, basically how many people are there with the ressesive ginger gene but dominent gene and those who are "pure".

So what i'm getting at is, there could be no ginger people in the world, and it would still not be "extinct". This is becuase a heterozygous ressive couple will always have that quater possibility of a ginger child, which would then have to be homozygous and the cyle continues.

Mina.

Well, based on our family history, our red hair skips generations, so my kid's kids aka grandchildren should have red hair, both my brothers have it, my aunt has it, and my great grandparents had it.
I am actually kind of proud of my red hair, because it is a very deep red, I always get comments on how good it looks, I just don't like bright red hair, it looks really udly if you ask me, but a lot of people used to try to dye their hair to make it look like mine, and never suceeded, but redheads gone by 2100, I kind of doubt it

I'd say Lindsey Lohan is quite attractive....sometimes.

Mina.

Originally posted by Mina
ressesive ginger gene (recap: neither of us would have to have ginger hair) then theres a quater possibility of producing a child with ginger hair.

Mina.
Wow I've never heard of ginger as hair color. I guess this is primarily in the UK, right. When someone says ginger I think of a sushi condiment or my GFs dog :)

Mina said it all for me. To see such times when red hair is extinct will surely not arrive. The presence of red hair could be descried as asymptotic, never quite reaching extinction.

I don't have a problem with red hair, although I don't find it attractive. We had a mate at school who was nicknamed "Ginge", and some of the my best memories were of teasing him (all good mannered you must understand). So as long as I always have a ginger mate, then I'm happy! :)

My hair was red/orange as a Child. It is now mostly brown with a red tint to it. (I'm 34)
I have two boys one Strawberry Blonde and one lightbrown/ ginger.

Guess I should start nailin' all the red head lasses I can.
My wife won't like it though. ;)