Redheads set for extinction

Dodos are long gone. Pandas are under threat. Now, another species is set to join the endangered species list:

The future doesn't look bright for people with ginger hair. According to genetic scientists redheads are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years.

The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than 2 per cent of the world's population has natural red hair - created by a mutation in northern Europe thousand of years ago...

Some experts warn redheads could be gone as early 2060, but others say the gene can be dormant in the reproductive system for generations before returning.

Damn. I've always known my favourite redhead, Paul "Scholesy" Scholes, was going to be irreplaceable.

Murad Ahmed

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Who cares? Nowadays its so hard to tell if its a real blonde, brunette or red hair that people dont really care. Red hair is also getting unpopular and more and more seem to colour their hair to a different colour anyway. i dont think the National Geographic took into account of those who naturally have red hair but ccoloured it to brunetter or something else.