Where did the red hair grow?

Researchers still know that humans, monkeys, and gibbons can see red, but the cause is unknown. Did this color initially help animals find food, or help him recognize his partner from afar?

A new study shows that gibbons originally developed color vision ability to help with food, later natural mothers turned red into the sexiest color and covered them with fur and red skin to induce attractive partner.

André Fernandez, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio University, USA, explains animals are attracted to dazzling colors. "So it is understandable that primates will react more when they see bright colors like red."

To understand the true source of red hair, Fernandez collected data on hair and skin color, the ability to see colors and sexual habits of 203 different primates. Next he filled in the data of the primate's evolution tree. Based on that diagram, the ability to see colors appears first, followed by the appearance of red, red and advanced reproductive systems.

"It seems that red and red hairs become a sexual advantage , " says evolutionary biologist Molly Morris. "So even though the advantage in finding food seems to be no longer available, it is still socially and sexually useful when the ape is visible in red."

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