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Have you realised that in all the warm countries the men/women have originally dark hair - Africa, Italy, Spain etc., but in the colder countries Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, mostly Blonde If wonder if the Lord had a reason for this? Mind you these days with so much integration there are a lot of mixed hair colours, not to mention hair dyes. If you have black hair you will probably have grey hairs showing earlier, or perhaps you cannot see them so easily in blonde hair!!!! Sylvia

Sylvia Dark hair has more melanin in it and is to protect from the sun. I guess Innuit peoples have dark hair so you can spot them in the snow!

so where does Auburn and ginger fit in?

Found this by googling "Hair colour" Black hair results from eumelanin, while red and brown hair owe their hue to a lighter form, called pheomelanin. But no-one yet knows the molecular secret of blonde hair. "It's one thing to restore pigment formation to a greying follicle, but quite another to modify the pigment," says Hoffman. "So it's not yet a replacement for the peroxide blonde." Once hair colour genes are discovered, it might be possible for people treated with them to switch them on and off whenever they want with hair creams that activate or turn off the genes. Helen

I wonder if I shall live long enough to know the answers to these questions. Quite strange in warm/hot countries only dark hair. Sylvia

Not always true about, dark hair - more grey. I am dark haired and very little grey and nearly the big 50. I have got spanish ancestry, so bang on about hot countries etc etc.

Who has ever seen a blonde Chinese or Japanese?

slyvia ive had every hair colour(nearly)all naturally..was born blonde and continued til i was 8/9 when it went light brown for 3yrs then went dark brown and finally an auburn colour like my mum has been all her life.my eyes are usually brown in winter but change to greeny grey in summer?? am i strange or does any one else do this??

Cherie - you're strange! lol. Only kidding. How fantastic to have a summer look and a winter look Jeanette

Hi Helen. Google has killed off more promising conversations than enough. LOL Keith