Interesting thing about red-haired people

Science sees that red-haired people have no evolutionary advantages. Today, they make up only 2% of the world population. In Ireland, this rate is higher, at 12%.

Jonathan Rhys, a dermatologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, thinks that this hair color is a coincidence of evolution, not through natural selection (although two Neaderthal men have been found). Ancient in two regions far away from each other and in two different periods but with the same hair color, showing that red hair is not necessarily random).

There are no white red-haired Aboriginal people in Africa. Skin-colored people - dark hair helps protect against strong levels of ultraviolet rays and skin cancer is typical of this continent. When Africans go up to the latitudes north of the European continent, where there are much less ultraviolet rays, they lose the evolutionary advantage of dark skin color. Red-haired people appear in this latitude region because cold conditions will help them synthesize vitamin D.

Although there are small numbers and random backgrounds, the redhead is quite famous. Some of the names in their group are Columbus, Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Queen Isabella of Spain, Winston Churchill (England), Queen Elizabeth I, Galilei, Vladimir Lenin . and many another leaves significant imprints in human history.

T. An