Ask a Geneticist |
by Simone Marticke, Stanford UniversityI am a natural redhead since birth and recently read in the newspaper that redheads will be extinct by the year 2100. Is this a good possibility and if so could ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:59:00 GMT |
Personality Craze |
I was thinking again... if your personality shines on this page I would be like santa claus and bring you up the favorites list. Of course I would have to equally find descent interesting things to po...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:54:00 GMT |
Reflecting Rouge |
I've been plugging away in an extensive search for illusive reds last couple days but also to I find myself focused and developing a wicked eye. The way I see it its like anything else looking for tha...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:49:00 GMT |
common traits of red hair |
It is "common knowledge" that redheads have hot tempers, but no one has ever seen a controlled study that tested the correlation. So while some like to use that excuse, it probably isn't a valid one....
Posted by on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:08:00 GMT |
origin of red hair |
In the UK red hair is generally associated with people of Celtic descent, i.e Scotland and Ireland. It is believed the people of Scotland came from 5 different ethnic groups who occupied or invaded n...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:07:00 GMT |
genetics of red hair |
Skin and hair pigment is made up of different types of melanin. There are two broad groups of melanin, eumelanin, which is brown, and phaeomelanin, which is red. Somebody with dark hair will have pre...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:06:00 GMT |
