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Posted by: Current Affairs Blog Friday 26th October 2007, 12:32pm
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Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'

Some Neanderthals were probably redheads, a DNA study has shown.

Researchers extracted DNA from remains of two Neanderthals and retrieved part of an important gene called MC1R (MC Ginger Minger)

In modern people, a change - or mutation - in this gene causes red hair, but, until now, no one knew what hair colour our extinct relatives had.

By analysing a version of the gene in Neanderthals, scientists found that they also have sported fiery locks.

The researchers found that Neanderthals carried a unique variant of the ginger gene thankfully not present in modern humans.

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