Amy, you're headed for extinction
This story caught my attention the other day and I've been ruminating on it since then. Both points of view in the article seem valid, though I'm more inclined to agree with Jonathan Rees. Being blond doesn't inhibit one's ability to procreate (outside of jokes, that is), so for the trait to be bred completely out of existence seems unlikely. Just the same, I'm going to go to the local expert on the matter, and ask Amanda: just how likely is it that people like my sister will be extinct within 200 years?
September 29, 2002 - 06:39 PM
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Okay. Well. I read an article too, and they’re extremely vague about everything. Scientists in Germany. At the Institute for Crackheads on the Green at Munich, or something? Hair color is a continuous, polygenic (Many genes code for it), trait. It isn’t just one gene, simple recessive/dominant relationship. I really don’t think it’s as simple as they say, so no, blondes are probably going to be around for quite some time. Also, not enough in the population carry it? Do they have all our DNA on record? I don’t think so.