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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
New neighbours moved-in down the street recently. They're perhaps early-mid 30s, and they both have bright orangey red hair (think Beaker from The Muppets). They have three little kids all under perhaps six with the same orange colour hair. It's adorable seeing this family with matching manes out and about, like a pride of lions in search of a playground. Or a pack of leprechauns.
I haven't met them yet, but I met the guy's dad when they were moving in (not a redhead) who told me the son is training in some kind of medical specialty. I hope it's trichology. Or genetics.
Don't redheads make up like 1% of the population? And isn't red-headedness a recessive trait? Those are some pretty fantastic odds that there's five of them. I should take this over to the math nerd thread.
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I'm not a geneticist, but yes red-headedness is recessive. But, being a recessive trait, two redheads can
only produce redhead children. So the odds of all three kids being redhead is 100%.