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?
Yes, indeed, the western fringes of Europe. Most of my ancestors were Scottish and Irish.
That is interesting, I have some scottish ancestry myself.
numbers during the eighteenth century.
Large-scale emigration from Scotland to America began in the 1700s, accelerating after the Jacobite rising of 1745, the resulting breakup of the clan structures, and the Highland Clearances. Displaced Scots went in search of a better life and settled in the thirteen colonies, initially around South Carolina and Virginia, and then further in successive generations.
Number of Scottish Americans.
Number of Scottish Americans Colonial period 1700 - 1775.
According to the United States Historical Census Data Base (USHCDB)
valerian) colors.
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 (