Recent research published in Nature suggests a correlation between - being a red head as an evolutionary asset, because it provides certain protection against a number of pathogens. I have as the say a - dog in this fight. When I was born I had a crop of red hair and that is why my parents called me Robin. When we started to develop as homo sapiens some 300,000 years ago a particular gene developed over evolutionary time to produce an increasing number of redheads. Apparently evolution has favoured a redhead for about 10,000 years. So I can count myself fortunate, when in the past I have not been happy being a redhead.
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