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Why is your beard reddish brown but your hair is not?

As you have probably already noticed, beards have been very popular among men lately. Considering the significant increase in facial hair around the world, it is difficult to expect this trend to become obsolete quickly.

Although most men have a dark beard color, we also often see individuals with reddish brown hair color. This is all the more unusual because their hair is not colored the same.

The answer to the question why this is so was sought by science. Research conducted by Viral Thread, proved that the matter is very simple.

Beards can be seen as a symbol of masculinity.
Beards can be seen as a symbol of masculinity.

The genes that determine hair color and also otherwise influence each other are different from each other, and none of them not dominant. This means that there is a possibility that your hair, eyebrows, beard and armpit hair are colored differently.

Petra Haak-Bloem from the Dutch National Center for Genetics explained that hair color usually we inherit from our ancestors. Just because combinations of different genes it is all the more likely that there will be differences in the color of the hair on the body.

The reddish brown color of the beard is definitely not wrong.
The reddish brown color of the beard is definitely not wrong.

At the same time, it should be emphasized that scientists discovered more than ten years ago that chromosome 16 gene is found MC1R, which produces protein melanocortin 1. The latter plays an important role in what color hair a person has.

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