8 Feb 2018

Are redheads with blue eyes going extinct?

From Afternoons, 1:21 pm on 8 February 2018

When you meet a red haired person 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 are around 0.17 per cent.

Evolutionary biologist Professor Mark Elgar from the University of Melbourne has been looking at this rare colour combination, and whether it could be dying out.

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