The mutant strains of human species: Are you a redhead?

[caption id="attachment_20954" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rhonda Fleming[/caption]

Carol Forsloff----Are you a redhead with blue eyes? If so, you are considered a mutant, someone who has recessive genes both with the red hair and the blue eyes. Are you someone who is also different enough to be a mutant in the human species?

Despite protestations to the contrary, most people strive to be like everyone else. And as a matter of fact, most of us share 98% of our genetic makeup, however over the centuries our similarities to our human ancestors have changed dramatically so that we bear few similarities to them with respect to how we look.

Brown eyes and dark hair are the dominant genes. Red hair is the rarest of hair colors, with only 3 to 6% of the population of the world who have red hair. It is ordinarily associated with very fair skin and light colored eyes. Brown-eyed redheads, however, are more dominant than blue eyed redheads, because of the dominance of the brown-eyed gene. Still two brown-eyed parents can have a blue-eyed child Still the redhead with blue eyes is particularly rare compared with other people.

Most redheads originate from the British Isles. Scotland is said to have the most redheads at 13% of the population, and 40% are said to carry the redhead gene.

In the United States only 2% of the population are natural redheads. For centuries it was considered so unlucky to have red hair that in ancient Egypt redheads were burned alive. Today, however, they are just the mutants of the world, but, if you liked Red Buttons, the comic, and Rhonda Fleming, the actress, they can surely be funny or beautiful or even both. And if you are one of these mutants, these days you likely won't be burned alive for being one, but people will exclaim nonetheless about that unique characteristic, likely with some degree of envy that they don't stand out from the crowd like one of you. both.