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Redheads beware! You may be headed the way of dodos, dinosaurs and Whitney Houston's career. Britain's Oxford Hair Foundation predicts that, by the end of the century, carrot-tops might have disappeared from the face of the Earth.

The foundation says that only 4 per cent of the world's population carry the recessive gene for red hair and that, over time, brunettes, blondes and pepperheads will control human hair colour with their dominant genes.