where did redheads originate from???

Answer 1

I read an article recently that because redheads have fair skin, therefore the red hair gene was advantageous in countries like Scotland that have low levels of direct sunlight, to maximize a persons exposure to UV radiation, which is necessary in small doses to produce vitamin D, preventing rickets. Hence red hair has become common in such countries. I've also read that the red hair gene also gives a person a higher threshold of pain, which could be advantageous in its own right I suppose.

Answer 2

They originated from a mutation, nothing more.

Originally all humans had black hair. At some point a child was born with a defective gene that was incapable of producing the brown pigment in hair. That meant that only the red pigment was produced and not surprisingly the hair of that individual was red.

That individual himself has children that also inherited the defective gene and so forth.

Al redheads still carry the genes for dark hair, it's just that the genes exist in a mutated defective form.

Answer 3

It is probably from both parents hair colour, its genetic and sometimes redheads are fake. Hair colouring.

Answer 4

Iraq

Answer 5

Maybe the Danes or Norsemen?

Answer 6

Hmmm how bout good ol Ireland?

Answer 7

the irish man

Answer 8

...Uranus!? LOL