# brown hair?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brown-hair/214982>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [November 24, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brown-hair/214982 "2003-11-24T10:07:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martijn\_Hover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Martijn\_Hover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martijn_Hover)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brown-hair/214982/1 "2003-11-24T10:07:14Z")

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Here’s what I read in one of cecil’s columns [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_317b.html:](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_317b.html:)

it seems to me, we might just as plausibly conclude that the reason our hair is brown (most people, anyway) is that it enabled our monkey ancestors to hide amongst the coconuts

Apparently the straight doper believes that most people have brown hair. The teeming billions in China, India, Africa etc. may beg to differ.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brown-hair/214982/2 "2003-11-24T11:47:22Z")

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Adjusted link to the article:  
[Why is the sound of fingernails scraping a blackboard so annoying?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_317b.html)

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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brown-hair/214982/3 "2003-11-24T15:31:50Z")

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Above link broken. [Here it is.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_317b.html)