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Why do we have different hair colors?

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Hair color is determined by the amount of a pigment called melanin in hair. An abundance of one type of melanin, called eumelanin, gives people black or brown hair. An abundance of another pigment, called pheomelanin, gives people red hair.

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Because of the chromes/genes passed down to us from others in our bloodline

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