A 2007 ripoti in The Courier-Mail, which cited the National Geographic magazine and unnamed "geneticists", alisema that red hair is likely to die out in the near future.[33] Other blogs and news sources ran similar stories that attributed the research to the magazine au the "Oxford Hair Foundation". However, a HowStuffWorks makala says that the foundation was funded kwa hair-dye maker Procter & Gamble, and that other experts had dismissed the research as either lacking in evidence au simply bogus. The National Geographic makala in fact states "while redheads may decline, the potential for red isn't going away".[34]

Red hair is caused kwa a relatively rare recessive gene, the expression of which can skip generations. It is not likely to disappear at any time in the foreseeable future.[34]