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wildoates said:
It does seem like there're a disproportionate number of southpaws here, though. What's the percentage in the population?
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It think here we're running about 25-50% southpaws. Left handedness is a recessive genetic trait with a frequency about in the redheadedness range (my off-hand guess), so there seems to be a disproportinate leftleaning here compared to the general population.

Speaking of which, looks like we have a disproportiante number of redheads, too...
 
TheAlchemist said:
It think here we're running about 25-50% southpaws. Left handedness is a recessive genetic trait with a frequency about in the redheadedness range (my off-hand guess), so there seems to be a disproportinate leftleaning here compared to the general population.

Speaking of which, looks like we have a disproportiante number of redheads, too...
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Must be that latent Viking heritage. :)

All redheads should make as many babies as they possibly can to keep that phenotype from going extinct as it's rumored to do in the next couple of hundred years.

;)
 
Chevette Girl said:
Red-heads worldwide are apparently 1-2% and higher in Northern and Western Europeans, 2-6%, again, Wikipedia... [/COLOR]
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Depends what kind of redhead we're talking about too - the European kind(s) of redheads are what we're used to seeing, and seems to be all that wiki article covers - but there are dark skinned people with red hair too, it's typically a darker, more bronze-less copper coloured hair, but I have seen it get pretty close to what Europeans have. I'm not sure about in Africa, Mainland Asia, and North/South America - but I'm pretty sure Oceana has some redheaded native peoples, and I know for sure India does.

I get Indian people coming up to me asking if I've dyed my hair, they all say they have family members with the exact same hair colour.

But for some reason we never really hear about all the dark skinned redheads, just us pale Europeans. Kinda weird.

I wonder if it's even the same genetics that cause it at all in Indians... maybe, maybe not. Indians share a closer relationship (linguistically and I presume genetically) to Europeans than pretty much any other ethnicities on the planet so it might make sense if it was the same genetics.

I have seen redheaded "african" people, but I'm pretty sure they were all half-european.

I should go do some research into this, I realize I don't really know what I'm talking about...
 
Some nutritional deficiencies can turn otherwise brunette hair "red" (you can sometimes see this when someone goes "vegan" and ceases to take any animal protien) and some chemo can change the texture and color of the hair that returns post chemo...
 
I saved a lock of my own hair from quite some time ago (before these white invaders) and last I looked, it's running to reddish, sort of similar to the in-between colour my white hairs will take on if they've been dyed dark and it doesn't stay, or the colour my dark hair gets if I let it get too much sun in summer.
 
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