A delightful case of pheomelanism

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

A delightful case of pheomelanism Originally uploaded by e³°°° Redhead Day 2009, Breda (the Netherlands) see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redheadday & www.roodharigen.nl The pigment pheomelanin gives red hair its distinctive colour. Red hair has far more pheomelanin than other hair colours, but far less of the dark pigment eumelanin. The genetics of red hair, discovered in 1997, ...

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