Gingers will be extinct in 100 years

[Spaff]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22289183-2,00.html?from=public_rss

oh noes gingar.

[DanJW]

Oh wow. That article shows amazing ignorance of the genetics involved. I'm surprised at the National Geographic.

Fact is, most red-hair genes are recessive. While this means they are repressed in the presence of dark-hair genes, it also means that the gene itself is almost impossible to irradicate - too many non-ginger people will unknowingly be carrying a ginger gene. This means that now and again a red head will pop up, even to non-ginger parents.

This doesn't even take into account the possibility of new ginger genes coming into existence by mutation (it's only a very minor mutation after all).

[Spaff]

it also doesnt take into effect the ethnic cleanisng of gingers that will take place in 2043

[Roderick]

Or the ginger restoration breeding programme of 2057.

[DanJW]

Or the conversion of the United States into a ginger-worshipping isolated biodome (I forget the date that happened. It was probably gradual anyway).