What is the least common hair color in the world?
Red hair ranges from light strawberry blond shades to titian, copper and less commonly "true" red. It is caused by a variation in the Mc1r gene and is recessive. Red hair has the highest amounts of pheomelanin, around 67%, and usually low levels of eumelanin. At 1-2% of the population, it is the least common hair color in the world. It is most prominently found in Scotland, Ireland and England. Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads; 13 percent of the population has red hair and approximately 40 percent carries the recessive redhead gene.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
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red rose
Amazing i am a black woman and my hair is red. I have 2 granddaughters with red hair wilm share with them
John McLardie
Us red-headed Scots are all crazy.
Joseph A. Robitaille
Red Rose that was interesting about you and 2 grandchildren. Good question.
Carolyn Brior
My husband's family has many "true red" heads. His mother had black hair (Native American ancestry) so his hair wasn't red but his father, grandfather, grandmother, 3 uncles, aunt, and many cousins are red-heads. Not auburn - red!
Jaimi McEntire
Tony Knapp - black is least common? More than half the world must have black hair.
George Oliver Prince
Missed it by a hair
Karen Mack
I got it right, but I found it confusing, since I consider auburn to also be red.
Jennifer Dyster
Got it right because I ignored Auburn which is defined as a type of red hair. I don't think it belongs in the list of main hair colours. It should not have been included
rosemarymee
Susannah Landis, not a rare combination in Scotland.
SmartyPlayer
Lucy Ricardos favorite hair color.
Mensamia
Papua new Guinea has a high population as well!! Europeans arent the only with red hair.
Bklynbuilt
I'm a redhead!
Phil Kennelty
Actually green blue or purple would have been more correct as the LEAST common .
Irene Townsend
Most Red Hair people I know have blue eyes, my son is Red Hair with brown eyes, appears to be very few of them. Comes from my mother's aunt, but then all my children had different coloured hair, red, black, brown and blonde, Father light brown and me black, go figure.
Helga U. Williams
I saw quite a few redheads in Germany, including my family and myself!
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janellejaworski
My aunt kk she's the red head of the family but mostly ginger red head.
Player
John Edward Boyle, I did that too. Then wondered why I was wrong
Andy the educated troglodyte
My Mum is a ginga
jimrooks
Jaimi McEntire, black is the MOST common!
Susannah Landis
An interesting fact:
Red Hair And Blue Eyes Is Rare
"The combination of having both red hair and blue eyes is so rare because blue eye color is also a recessive trait, meaning both parents must carry the gene for a child to have it. Red hair
occurs naturally in one to two percent of the human population, while just 17 percent of the world's population has blue eyes. The majority of redheads have brown, hazel, or green eyes."
jack patti go
I am a natural redhead, of Scottish, and Irish descent! My Mom was a redhead, my grandaughters are redheads!
Kathy Estes Brooks
Have two red heads..
Boni Forte
Got it