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Why do Scot's have ginger hair?

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:24 am
by TheLuckyCue
because they eat so much ginger bread! =D>
actually it is the climate that gives them ginger hair...
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Re: Why do Scot's have ginger hair?

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:57 am
by 9balldotcom
Wikipedia has some interesting statistics on Redheads k read em and weep.

Redheads constitute approximately 4 percent of the European population.[11] Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads; 13 per cent of the population has red hair and approximately 40 per cent carries the recessive redhead gene.[12] Ireland has the second highest percentage; as many as 10 per cent of the Irish population has red, auburn, or strawberry blond hair.[13] It is thought that up to 46 percent of the Irish population carries the recessive redhead gene. A 1956 study of hair colour amongst British army recruits also found high levels of red hair in Wales and the English Border counties.[14]


HOWEVER HERE IS THE BEST FACT OF ALL.


In the United States, it is estimated that 2–6% of the population has red hair. This would give the U.S. the largest population of redheads in the world, at 6 to 18 million, compared to approximately 650,000 in Scotland and 420,000 in Ireland.

Re: Why do Scot's have ginger hair?

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:34 am
by polomint77
Ahh, but the yanks will have dyed it, or maybe they want to be Scooooootish, although god knows why, cos the Scoooooootish want to be English, lol