Are Gingers Going Extinct? | Earth Science

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Are all the redheads actually going extinct? Greg Foot finds out and traces back the urban myth to see whether Ron Weasley and Hannah Fry should be afraid! Footnote 1 - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gingers-face-extinction-due-to-climate-change-scientists-warn-9590054.html Footnote 2 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362956/ Footnote 3 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/edexcel_pre_2011/genes/genesrev2.shtml Footnote 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-kjyLK1iMw Footnote 5 - http://www.hindawi.com/journals/njos/2014/498276/ Footnote 6 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362956/ Footnote 7 - http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/redhead-anesthesia1.htm Footnote 8 - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/14/597#B3 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamin-d-deficiency-risk/ http://jn.nutrition.org/content/136/4/1126.full Footnote 9 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19307527?dopt=Citation Footnote 10 - http://www.irishcentral.com/news/scientists-confirm-redhead-gene-evolved-due-to-lack-of-sunlight-224444281-237778201.html and http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gingers-face-extinction-due-to-climate-change-scientists-warn-9590054.html Footnote 11 - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gingers-face-extinction-due-to-climate-change-scientists-warn-9590054.html Footnote 12 - https://www.scotlandsdna.com/ and http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/gingers-could-become-extinct-due-38097

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