25 August 2007 - red hair

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2007 : 25 August 2007

Maintain human biodiversity! The gene for red hair is dying out, but it’s not too late to institute captive breeding programs. Hmm, I’m a Scott, maybe I should volunteer....

clue:

Scotland has the greatest proportion of redheads.

Based on a news report that the gene for red hair could be extinct by the next century—an implausible projection, since some redheads born today will still be alive then. If red hair could die out that fast, it already would have.

take oh take this clue away