That’s racist. Watch out for the ginger ninjas!
Seriously “ginger” is a recessive gene mix, which means as gingers migrate and marry non-gingers, they will tend to have non-ginger children. The result will be a world ginger shortage. For me, that’s a tragedy. As to why, 2 words, Karen Gillan!
As the gene pool of gingers gets ‘diluted’ into the worldwide pool of non-gingers (as Peter said, by marrying non-gingers and having non-ginger children – because the ginger gene is recessive), the number of people with ginger hair will decrease. But at the same time, the number of half-ginger children will increase (they have a copy of the ginger gene even if it doesn’t show up in their hair), and when two half-gingers have children there is a fair chance they will be fully ginger again! So yes, there will be fewer of them around, but they won’t completely disappear I don’t think!
Hi russewil- best question yet! We don’t tend to see many gingers because non-ginger DNA is more dominant.
If a ginger marries a non-ginger (or ‘ninger’) then the children will be ningers too.
However, if they in turn were to marry a ginger then there is a good chance that the ginger hair would return in their children.
Most of us are ningers, so I think gingers will decrease, but they won’t become extinct!
P.s. my wife’s a ginger!
It depends if being a ginger is an advantage or disadvantage! If people with ginger hair are more likely to reproduce, either because they are more attractive or because they are safer from predators (better camouflage?) then the gene will stay around and there will always be gingers. However, if they have a disadvantage the gene will eventually disappear.
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It depends if being a ginger is an advantage or disadvantage! If people with ginger hair are more likely to reproduce, either because they are more attractive or because they are safer from predators (better camouflage?) then the gene will stay around and there will always be gingers. However, if they have a disadvantage the gene will eventually disappear.