Does anyone have any good photos of people with black skin and natural red hair?

Question

I'm researching something about the ginger gene.

I don't mean dark brown/black hair that lightens a bit to dark auburn in sunshine (like Malcolm X). I mean proper ginger hair and really dark skin.

The ginger hair gene seems to lighten skin a bit, all the mixed race ginger kids I could find on line were pretty pale. Help?

Answer 1

I have seen people in Africa not sure if it was zimbabwe or mozambique whih had a kind of brownish tinge to their hair, though its difficult to know if it has been dyed.

There was those ginger mummies that the chinese kept under wraps (pun unintended)!

Answer 2

Some Igbo people in Nigeria have reddish hair, but they tend to have yellow skin. they have an albino trait supposedly.

Aboriginal Australians have hair colors ranging from yellow to red to brown. People from the Melanesian Islands have brown skin, Afro textured hair and hair colors ranging from blonde to red to dark brown.  Contrary to popular erroneous belief, so-called Black people can have hair ranging from coily to curly to straight, with colors ranging from dark brown to blonde. of course, there is no such thing as "Black" people or "White" people. Just people with a common ancestry who have been isolated geographically and become slightly genetically distant due to their isolated development and acclimatization to their immediate environment.

Answer 3

Try googling for images of solomon islanders.

Some melanesians have reddish blonde or blonde hair with dark skin.

Answer 4

Just some p**n. Do you want that?

; -)

Answer 5

Yes actually Malcom X had a redish tinge to his hair that grew redder in the summer. This is very odd because he is almost full black. He is three quarters (his mother is mulatto and father black). He is noted for being light skinned and had a reddish tinge to his hair that was almost blondish at birth. Though the type of hair he had was nappy hair like the rest of black people. And the person above me who answered isn't totally correct because most hispanics are Mestizos (European and Native American) so the majority of hispanics will not had red hair at all, even if they are a black latino. Spanish peoples are european, but they are mediterranean and many of them are dark haired, olive skinned, and dark eyes. Red and blonde hair comes from northern european areas. Spaniards today have all kinds of colored hair because european tribes and sub-races have mixed. Anyways, most Latinos will have dark brown and black hair.

Answer 6

I don't think those traits co-exist.  The natural hair colour for anyone with black skin is black hair.  Black hair is a dominant gene and will ALWAYS override the very recessive red hair gene.  So if someone is black, they are unable to have naturally red hair.  

The only exception would be a pigment mutation but I imagine it's rare if it's ever happened

Answer 7

I can't answer your question but you may find this interesting.

My grandad has red hair. My aunt (his daughter) has brown hair, and my cousin (his grandaughter) has brown hair. She has 2 children with red hair. Obviously the gene has skipped a couple of generations.

The strange part is that the father of my cousin's 2 children (paternity tests were done which confirmed that he was the father) is Lebanese and has dark hair. I was under the impression that the red hair was the recessive gene. In this case, the gene has skipped 2 generations and over-road the dominant gene of black hair.

Answer 8

No, I've searched the net... if it exists, I sure can't find it.  I've long suspected these genes were picked up in Europe or the Mid East.

Answer 9

If you believe the theory that the disappearance of the Neanderthals was caused by interbreeding with Archaic Homo Sapiens (source 1), then it is possible that the two traits are mutually exclusive since the red hair trait may have actually originated from the Neanderthals. (source 2)

As for natural red hair with dark skin if they are NOT mutually exclusive, several African tribes such as the Samburu color their hair red using ochre (this is also done by Tasmanians).

Your best bet to find the red-hair dark-skin combination would probably be to look through the Hispanic population, which may have arisen from coupling between red-haired Europeans (mostly Spaniards) and Latin American natives or slaves brought in from Africa during the Colonial period.