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Sep 18, 2018 · Only 17% of the world’s population have blue eyes, and only 1 to 2% have red hair. In the array of possible natural hair colors, dark hues are the most common — more than 90 percent of...
Mar 14, 2017 · The combination of having both red hair and blue eyes is so rare because blue eye color is also a recessive trait, meaning both parents must carry the gene for a child to have it. Red hair occurs naturally in one to two percent of the human population, while just 17 percent of the world's population has blue eyes.
Sep 15, 2017 · That’d be red hair with blue eyes. There’s a little genetic tweak that makes the combination of red hair and blue eyes the rarest of them all.
Feb 2, 2018 · Rumour has it that red-haired people with blue eyes are dying out - but what’s the truth about the future of this rarest genetic colour combination? By Dr Nerissa Hannink, University ofMelbourne. For every 100 people in the world, only one or two will have red hair.
Nov 21, 2022 · Is the combination of red hair and blue eyes in one person really the rarest? Some say that it's as simple as them both being recessive genes and having a low prevalence in the world population. But the relationship between hair color and eye color is complex (via Twin Research and Human Genetics).
Feb 1, 2018 · Mark Elgar. For every 100 people in the world, only one or two will have red hair. And when you meet a red head with blue eyes, you are looking at the rarest colour combination of all for human beings. The odds of having both red hair and blue eyes sits at around 0.17 per cent. Picture: Shutterstock.
Jun 28, 2018 · According to Medical Daily, blue-eyed redheads take the prize for rarest hair and eye color combination. Both genes for blue eyes and red hair are recessive, so if you can remember back to high school biology and Punnett Squares , you’ll know just how rare this combo is.
