• Question: Did you know 1/4 of the human population is supposedly ginger? This number is increasing why?

    Asked by The Almighty Ginger Overlord to Laura, Matthew, Andrew on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Matthew Camilleri

      Matthew Camilleri answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      Is it really? Well, gingers would have adapted to a specific environments, same as black people tends to be well protected to the sun, black/brown eyes are more protected to high amounts of sunlight so on and so forth.

      At teh end of the day I apologise but it is only 2% of the population that is ginger, with the percentage being higher in northern european countries.

    • Photo: Laura Schofield

      Laura Schofield answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      That’s crazy Matthew! Only 2%??? More than half of my family are ginger! Maybe we make up that whole 2%!
      To be honest I don’t know why it’s increasing but I assume it is to do with us not living in such harsh conditions any more and spending more time indoors/away from direct sunlight so we’ve stopped adapting to much harsher environments!

    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      I’m not sure this fact is quite right – ginger hair is related to fair skin, so this only tends to happen in northern europe. I think that the actual proporation is more like 2-3% of the human population (but higher in northern Europe – there aren’t many natural red-heads around eastern Asia!).

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