Do you have red hair? My girlfriend has red hair.
Actually, I do have red hair. That means your girlfriend and I are both part of only 1-2% of the population.
That is crazy, is that based on world population?
Yes, that's the whole human population, though red hair varies from reddish brown to deep Burgundy.
Yeah my girlfriends is more of a reddish brown.
So is mine. We're probably both of northern or Western European extraction, because red hair is more common there.
Yeah it is more common in ireland or scotland right?
Europe; it is centered around populations in the British Isles. Redheads today are commonly associated with the Celtic nations.
In Ireland, the percentage of population with red hair is estimated to be at around 10%, making it the world's highest concentrated population of red heads. According to IrelandsDNA, 34.7% of the Irish population carry the allele for red hair, although this doesn't directly translate proportionally into births of red-haired children.
Scotland also has a high percentage with around 6% of the population
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In science and nature Hair color.
Red hair occurs naturally on approximately 1–2% of the human population. It occurs more frequently (2–6%) in people of northern or western European ancestry, and less frequently in other populations. Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a mutation in the MC1R protein.
Red hair varies from a deep burgundy through burnt orange to bright copper. It is characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin (