If Gingers Go Extinct It Won't Be Because of Global Warming
This week, pale people both home and abroad wigged out after
Scotland's Daily Record published an article claiming "redheads
could become extinct" due to climate change. Citing an unnamed
scientist, the paper forwarded the idea that increased sun
exposure could kill off the world's ginger population like so
many freckle-faced vampires, possibly within a few hundred
years. Unfortunately for redheads coveting their potential
conservation status (and the dupes at the Huffington Post,
Glamour and The Independent), this story is total bullshit.  "I
don't buy the redheads dying out bit," said University of
Edinburgh's Professor Jonathan Rees, who, as arguably the
world's foremost expert on red hair and genetics, would probably
know about this sort of thing. Rees told Gawker the only way red
hair gene could die out is if carriers "have fewer viable
children than others."  The question is therefore do red heads
have fewer viable kids? Now, red heads are mor