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Naturally occurring red hair appears in a small minority of humans and is the rarest natural hair color, occurring in 0.6 percent of people. [2] A smaller percentage of humans, approximately 0.17 percent or 13 million, have a combination of red hair and blue eyes. [3]
Red hair, also known as ginger hair, is a human hair color found in 2–6% of people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.
While most Circassian tribes were famous for abundance of fair or dark blond and red hair combined with greyish-blue or green eyes, [23] many also had the pairing of very dark hair with very light complexions, a typical feature of peoples of the Caucasus. [24]
A fragment by the Greek poet Xenophanes describes the Thracians as blue-eyed and red haired: ...Men make gods in their own image; those of the Ethiopians are black and snub-nosed, those of the Thracians have blue eyes and red hair. [59] Bacchylides described Theseus as wearing a hat with red hair, which classicists believe was Thracian in ...
Red or ginger hair may come in different shades, from strawberry blond to auburn. [1] With only 2% of the world's population having red hair, [2] red is the rarest natural hair-coloration. [1] The list includes people who have dyed their red hair into another color or whose red hair has gone grey with age, but not people who have dyed their ...
The Budini are a large and powerful nation: they have all deep blue eyes, and bright red hair. The Budini, however, do not speak the same language as the Geloni, nor is their mode of life the same. They are the aboriginal people of the country, and are nomads; unlike any of the neighbouring races, they eat 'phtheir'. [2]
Later Xenophanes of Colophon described the Aethiopians as black and snub-nosed and the Thracians as having red hair and blue eyes. [76] In his description of the Scythians, Hippocrates states that the cold weather "burns their white skin and turns it ruddy." [77] [78]
Oculocutaneous albinism is a form of albinism involving the eyes , the skin (-cutaneous), and the hair. [1] Overall, an estimated 1 in 20,000 people worldwide are born with oculocutaneous albinism. [1] OCA is caused by mutations in several genes that control the synthesis of melanin within the melanocytes. [2]