[language] [Fwd: [evol-psych] 'Redheads are Neanderthals']

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Thu Apr 19 15:30:17 UTC 2001


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NEWS 24
17/04/2001 08:36  - (SA)

'Redheads are Neanderthals'

London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, according
to a new
study by British scientists.

Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in
Oxford
were quoted by The Times as saying the so-called "ginger gene" which
gives
people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100 000 years
old.

They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in
Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200 000 years before Homo sapien
settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40 000
years
ago.

Rosalind Harding, the research team leader, told The Times: "The gene is
certainly older than 50 000 years and it could be as old as 100 000
years.

"An explanation is that it comes from Neanderthals." It is estimated
that at
least 10 percent of Scots have red hair and a further 40 percent carry
the gene
responsible, which could account for their once fearsome reputation as
fighters.

Full text:
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