Sayonara gingers!
According to geneticists, redheads are becoming more and more rare as humanity continues to swell, and could even be extinct in 100 years.
National Geographic reports that natural red hair, which occurred due to a mutated gene in northern European people thousands of years ago, is today present in less than 2 per cent of the world's population thanks to global intermingling, which broadens the availability of possible partners but has reduced the chances of redheads meeting and so producing little redheads of their own.
Some experts are warning that we could see the end of gingers by 2060 at the earliest, while others are more optimistic about their survival saying that the genes required for redheads to be born can remain dormant for generations before expressing itself. Apparently the gene came about so the could make vitamin D from sunlight more easily but today's carriers are more prone to skin cancer and have a higher sensitivity to heat and cold-related pain.
Well there goes half our international tourism advertising. Thank God we still have those leprechauns.
