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There Are More Redheads Than Ever Thanks to an Unexpected Evolutionary Twist

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Redheads have spent centuries as the subject of folklore, superstition, and a disproportionate number of Halloween costumes. Now, science is handing them a win. A sweeping new study out of Harvard found that natural selection has been actively pushing red hair genes forward for thousands of years, and the trend is still going.



The research, published in Nature and led by Harvard geneticist David Reich, is one of the largest ancient DNA studies ever conducted. Reich’s lab spent seven yea

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