Does the game ever produce natural red-heads?

[iki_balam]

I see a lot of dark reddish or light reddish brown. But what about just red?

[Donkey Anus]

i hope not

[Steelfleece]

Some say the genes for red hair will be extinct within a couple hundred years and the game's much further in the future. But then again neanderthals were supposed to be extinct and they came back for Biotech so maybe there's hope for redheads too.

[The Blind One]

They've all been race swapped for that ESG score.

[Robo]

Origineel geplaatst door The Blind One:

They've all been race swapped for that ESG score.

Ludeon's probably on the bottom of that list since you commit daily war crimes, not building a horseshoe pen for example.

[Steelfleece]

Origineel geplaatst door Robo7988143:

Origineel geplaatst door The Blind One:

They've all been race swapped for that ESG score.

Ludeon's probably on the bottom of that list since you commit daily war crimes, not building a horseshoe pen for example.

Naw, it's fine as long as the war crimes are diverse, equitable and inclusive. Everyone gets their legs removed, no matter their skin tone, ideology or sexuality. If someone already doesn't have legs, you have to fit them for peg legs then remove them again so they aren't left out.

[Minty Fresh]

Origineel geplaatst door Steelfleece:

Some say the genes for red hair will be extinct within a couple hundred years and the game's much further in the future.

Don't they also think that the Y chromosome also degenerating with every generation and males may be extinct in the future?
...or it that too utopian to hope for?

[Steelfleece]

Origineel geplaatst door Minty Fresh:

Origineel geplaatst door Steelfleece:

Some say the genes for red hair will be extinct within a couple hundred years and the game's much further in the future.

Don't they also think that the Y chromosome also degenerating with every generation and males may be extinct in the future?
...or it that too utopian to hope for?

If it were true, unless parthogenesis spontaneously begins or we start relying on cloning - in which case it won't matter - they won't be the only ones to go extinct.

[TwisterCat]

Origineel geplaatst door The Blind One:

They've all been race swapped for that ESG score.

All's well, when there's no "essential NPC's."

'sides, there's no shot they'd ever give Ludeon a penny for diversity, given the nature of RimWorld. That'd be like giving Wolfenstein an award for "outstanding portrayal of history."

[Astasia]

Origineel geplaatst door Minty Fresh:

Origineel geplaatst door Steelfleece:

Some say the genes for red hair will be extinct within a couple hundred years and the game's much further in the future.

Don't they also think that the Y chromosome also degenerating with every generation and males may be extinct in the future?
...or it that too utopian to hope for?

Not with "every generation" no. The Y chromosome has lost 1 gene every like 200,000 years on average over the course of 166 million years of "human evolution." Basically between the beginning of mammals and Us. Except humans have only existed for 300,000 years and I don't think they have confirmed we lost any genes in the Y chromosome in that time. If natural evolution continued and humans continued evolving based on natural selection, then at the rate it was happening the Y chromosome would in theory vanish in like 11 million years. Except not, because it would reach a point where it can't lose anything else without causing issues with reproduction and then further changes to the chromosome would be selected against. At worst it could diminish down to the genes that sets an embryo to male, obviously any further changes could never be passed on, because there are minimum requirements for breeding and a "defective male" could never produce another "defective male" offspring, so that mutation would always die.

I understand this reply was entirely too serious for this thread, but the ridiculous click-bait articles about that which happened a few years ago super triggered me at the time.

So, ya, red hair. What's that?

[Minty Fresh]

Origineel geplaatst door Astasia:

Origineel geplaatst door Minty Fresh:

Don't they also think that the Y chromosome also degenerating with every generation and males may be extinct in the future?
...or it that too utopian to hope for?

Not with "every generation" no. The Y chromosome has lost 1 gene every like 200,000 years on average over the course of 166 million years of "human evolution." Basically between the beginning of mammals and Us. Except humans have only existed for 300,000 years and I don't think they have confirmed we lost any genes in the Y chromosome in that time. If natural evolution continued and humans continued evolving based on natural selection, then at the rate it was happening the Y chromosome would in theory vanish in like 11 million years. Except not, because it would reach a point where it can't lose anything else without causing issues with reproduction and then further changes to the chromosome would be selected against. At worst it could diminish down to the genes that sets an embryo to male, obviously any further changes could never be passed on, because there are minimum requirements for breeding and a "defective male" could never produce another "defective male" offspring, so that mutation would always die.

I understand this reply was entirely too serious for this thread, but the ridiculous click-bait articles about that which happened a few years ago super triggered me at the time.

So, ya, red hair. What's that?

But the advert said "you can prevent the decay of your Y chromosome with this one weird trick"…

Surely that can't be a lie - the herbal supplement essential oil tablet drink that I bought must do something!

[Garatgh Deloi]

Origineel geplaatst door Minty Fresh:

must do something!

Might be radioactive (Yes, for whatever reason some of the bogus "health" stuff is slightly radioactive, more then what can be considered the norm).

[xjulep]

Origineel geplaatst door Steelfleece:

Some say the genes for red hair will be extinct within a couple hundred years and the game's much further in the future. But then again neanderthals were supposed to be extinct and they came back for Biotech so maybe there's hope for redheads too.

That was an article produced as a marketing gimmick for a hair dye company. It was based on the wrong idea that recessive genes are inherited at a lower rate. In reality their associated phenotype is less often expressed but they are inherited at the same rate.

Think of it like having two pairs of sunglasses and two regular glasses and randomly choosing two to wear simultaneously. Only if you choose both regular glasses will you not have the “light blocking” effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy–Weinberg_principle

[Zep Tepi]

Origineel geplaatst door iki_balam:

I see a lot of dark reddish or light reddish brown. But what about just red?

Natural redheads aren't truly red either. That comes out of a bottle.

[CloudSeeker]

Origineel geplaatst door Zep Tepi:

Origineel geplaatst door iki_balam:

I see a lot of dark reddish or light reddish brown. But what about just red?

Natural redheads aren't truly red either. That comes out of a bottle.

What color does a red fox has? I am pretty sure I know a few natural red heads. To me it seems your idea of "natural red" is not actually natural.

[Astasia]

Origineel geplaatst door CloudSeeker:

What color does a red fox has?

Brownish orange.