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Red hair genes directly inherited from the world's first Redheads 70,000 years ago | Abroad in the Yard
Ancestry - Did you know that red hair is a genetic mutation? Both parents must be carriers of the mutated MC1R gene to be able to produce redhead offspring. Do you have
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