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Why Pheomelanin?
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It was a question on "The Chase": An abundance of the pigment pheomelanin gives people which hair colour? Answer: red. I looked for the definition and etymology with Google. It is a"a reddish-yellow sulfur-containing melanin pigment" and 'pheo' comes from the Greek phaiós "a shade between black and white, gray, dark gray" (of obscure origin). Why would a reddish-yellow pigment be given a name meaning grey?
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