Only an estimated 4 percent of the population is born with red hair (only 2% in the U.S.), due to the recessive nature of the gene that produces it. That gene, the melanocortin 1 receptor, was discovered on the 16th of the 23 human chromosome pairs in 1995 by Jonathan Rees, a professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
It makes me sad..All I want in life is a female redhead....I'm not greedy, I'm not asking for fame or fortune or anything like that, I appreciate the beautifulness of the world around me, and as one of the nice guys, a dieing breed, I think I deserve the best, so if anybody out there knows of a nice redhead, help a borther out yo...