"According to the World Health Organization, blondes, natural ones, may be extinct within the next 200 years," CNN anchor Carol Lin said, tossing to a piece by the British network ITN.
What year will blondes be extinct?
BBC NEWS | Health | Blondes 'to die out in 200 years' The last natural blondes will die out within 200 years, scientists believe. A study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202.Are there any natural blondes left?
In 2006 the hoax was mentioned by The Sunday Times when reporting on the publication of a hypothesis of the origins of blonde hair and La Repubblica: "According to the WHO study, the last natural blond is likely to be born in Finland during 2202." It once again traveled quickly across the World Wide Web.How rare is natural blonde hair?
Only 2 percent of the world's population has naturally blond hair.How rare is light blonde hair?
Being naturally blonde is pretty rare.Only 2 percent of people in the world are natural blondes. (About one in 20 Americans are.) But that doesn't mean it's not popular. One in three women dyes her locks light enough to be considered blonde.
Blondes are becoming extinct
Do blondes live longer?
Who lived longer, blondes or non-blondes? The researchers showed that the blondes had significantly lower all-cause death. Still, they had a higher mortality from skin cancer. Contrasted and compared to the non-blondes, the blondes had significantly reduced all-cause death.Are blondes smart?
The study found that the average IQ of blondes was actually slightly higher than those with other hair colors, but that finding isn't statistically significant, said Zagorsky, who works in the university's Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR).What is the 2nd rarest hair color?
Blonde HairBut this isn't the case because blonde hair is the 2nd rarest natural hair color. Only 3% of the total global population is blonde.
Do blondes go GREY?
In fact, hair doesn't actually "turn" gray at all. Once a hair follicle produces hair, the color is set. If a single strand of hair starts out brown (or red or black or blond), it is never going to change its color (unless you color your hair).What is sexier black or blonde hair?
Longer and lighter hair is the most attractive on Caucasian women, a study has found. Both lighter brown hair and lighter blonde hair are seen as more attractive than darker or black hair.What is the rarest hair color?
Red hair is the rarest natural hair color. Experts estimate that somewhere between 1-2% of the world's population has red hair. Red hair is more common in Scotland than anywhere else in the world, where 13% of the population are redheads. Red hair is known for the variance of its many shades.Is blonde curly hair rare?
Lots of traits are statistically rare: Left-handedness (just 10 percent of the population!), curly hair (11 percent!), and blond hair (4 percent!), to name a few. But of the more than seven billion people on the planet, only 2 percent can claim to have this one special trait.Will gingers go extinct?
But whatever happens, redheads will not be going extinct. They will almost certainly decrease in numbers but there will always be a few around. And luckily for redheads, their numbers will probably never get all the way down to 6 or 7 million.How long until blue eyes are extinct?
Women and men with blond hair, eyebrows and blue eyes, natural blonds, they say will vanish from the face of the earth within 200 years, because it is not as strong a gene as brunets. ''When was the first blonde person born?
Blondes first began appearing around 11,000 years ago during the last ice age, and have since become major figures in mythology. Two of the Norse goddesses, Sif and Freyja were blondes.Is blonde hair a defect?
The blond hair mutation—or variant—is not genetically linked to any other traits, even eye color, Kingsley said, showing that none of our stereotypes about blonds are true.Do blondes go bald faster?
While you may have heard that blonds suffer more hair loss than brunettes, the reality is that your natural hair color doesn't have any effect on your likelihood of experiencing hair loss.Why do I have white hair at 13?
GeneticsIf you notice white hair at an early age, it's likely that your parents or grandparents also had graying or white hair at an early age. You can't change genetics. But if you don't like the way your gray hair looks, you can always color your hair.