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for-redheads:

MC1R Project by Michelle Marshall  |  tumblr

Documenting the incidence of the MC1R gene mutation, responsible for red hair and freckles, amongst black/mixed raced individuals.

“i want to stir the perception that most of us have of a ‘ginger’ person as a white caucasian individual potentially of Celtic descent. […] Mother Nature follows its own course, embracing society’s plurality and, in the process, shaking up our perceptions about origins, ethnicity and identity.”

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