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Saturday, October 8, 2011

The Disappearing Blonde Gene

The blonde hair gene is a gene that basically gives people blonde hair. It doesn't really matter what color your hair is, you could still "carry" a small piece of the blonde gene.  Anyway since like 1865 there's been things that are every few years claiming that "the blond gene" is going extinct.   In 2002 a bunch of different TV shows were saying that a few anonymous German scientists were said to have conducted an experiment in which they indicated that blond hair would only last for about another 200 years.  Apparently the last blondie is going to be born in Finland in 2202.  The World Health Organization (WHO) would have had some say in any kind of study like this and they have no knowledge of this one or made any reports of any other studies, which sorta makes these events since 1865... hoaxs.  Human hair color depends on two different types of melanin, eumelanin and pheomelanin, blond hair can have almost any combination of the two, but both only in small amounts.  Blonde hair is most often found more dominantly in people with Northern and Eastern European heritage, in most other people it's uncommon.  I just thought this was interesting because I hear all the time that people with blonde hair are going to be rare eventually, which could be true but not for a pretty long time:)

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