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Africans have the most ancient alleles (genes), which means they are the most genetically diverse. Therefore, Africans can have curly, straight coarse, wavy hair textures and ranging from jet black to red, brown, or blonde. Black, red, brown and blonde hair colors are also found among indigenous Australians, as well. Blonde hair existed among African populations before migrations to other continents where human geographical adaptation ocurred. Ariagia 04:42 Ariagia (talk) 20:48, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Some minor tweaking

Someone included a picture of an Aeta woman and said she was of African descent, so I decided to go ahead and get a better picture (of a much prettier lady at that!) while I was editing. ~~X-Calator 02:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


How can we tell the difference from black hair and dark brown hair? I thought that dark brown hair was virtually black hair but of European strain (European hair texture (and much of North Africa, A bit of the Middle East and the majority of Iran and some parts of the Hindustan), and which could produce a lighter colour haired child. It would contrasr with non European black hair. Is this nonsense? A lot of XIX century antrophologists said this and they distinguished Southern European black hair from North African black haired as well as Middle Eastern (Semitic) black hair with Irano-Afghan black hair. Is this non sense too? I would like to know wether my hair is black or dark brown. It looks very black much of the time but with strong sun light it turns somehow "browner". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.181.69.102 (talk) 12:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

What the hell does the statement ...africa, india and asia have black hair. Is India out of Asia? Maquahuitl 07:25, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

i don't know either... is it still there??Australian Jezza 08:14, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nonsensical

"with completely black or deep black"... someone tell me the difference 134.82.90.100 03:48, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

lately heard of black brown, soft black and like pure black. a lot of black-haired ppl, like me, will show certian tone under the sunlight, but some wont. anyone have more idea?--MeowKun | Meowi Talk 02:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Consensus?

The edit summary for this new page claimed that this page was created after a consensus decision. Could someone link me to this consensus?--HubHikari 18:05, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Please check the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jet black hair page. 168.253.15.112 18:39, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Western popular culture section

Interesting topic, but this section needs sources and some discussion of other attitudes to black hair. What about Snow White, for instance? See [1]. Or the 'tall, dark and handsome' cliché hero? --HJMG 16:15, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese Schools

The part about Japanese schools forcing students with naturally different-colored hair to dye their hair black sounds suspicious. There are plenty of Japanese with naturally brown or red hair, and I find it hard to believe that schools force them to dye it black. What, do they get suspended if the go too long between dye-jobs and their light roots start to show?

Since it's unsourced and uncited, I'm going to remove it until someone has more info. Roland Deschain 14:00, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Eh? I thought "my hair's naturally brown" was just an excuse students used in order to get away with dyed hair. --Kjoonlee 02:31, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, im Chinese, and when i was young im have like natural chestnut brown hair with like a little red or blond streal, according to my mom. When i was young i have teacher asked me if my dyed my hair and kids pick different colour in my hair. then when i get older my hair do turn darker yet i still have like highlight and blond hair and so on, i am not sure if that is the case. --MeowKun | Meowi Talk 02:21, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

  • My fiancee is Japanese and her sister has naturally red hair. It's not red the way someone from my (Irish-American) family would have red hair, but red nonetheless. Roland Deschain 05:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photos, Phonecians and 'Fros

Just explaining a few changes I've made:

  • Whoever removed the picture of the Asian guy gave no reason, so I put him back at the top of the page. I like this pic because it clearly shows the hair. I also added the pic of the goth girl, because it seemed relevant to the "Culture" bit (got that pic from the gothic subculture article). I removed the photos of celebs (Pierce Brosnan, John Travolta, Steven Saunders and Elvis Presley) because they didn't really add anything and it was just a long column of pics with no text beside them. Maybe if the article grows they can be added again to give a bit of color.
  • I took out the sentence: "This anthropological strain is believed to originate from a mixture between the dark Phoenician settlers and the blue-eyed Celtic invaders." (in relation to black hair in Ireland and Britain). There was no source for this and I find it unlikely that the Phonecians added any significant genes to these populations. Feel free to reinstate the sentence if you find a reliable source.
  • I added a bit about hair texture. In particular, I thought the link to afro textured hair was relevant.Fionah 14:29, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Black or possibly brown?

When you look closely at African, Mediterranean, Arabian and Indians you can see that its dark brunette, not really black. Does this means that they are actually not black hair? East Asian have the darkest black hair, its virtually jet black. CanCanDuo 07:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Hmm.. I'm Asian too and mine's just dark brown. Just saying. mirageinred 19:12, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

it just called black hair even though it is just really extremely dark brown hair, this is because with out putting light straight into your hair, or the sun is straight in you hair, it looks blackAustralian Jezza 08:13, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Well some people do have really dark brown hair, but I know for a fact that I have black black hair, because there is absolutely no other colored highlight it in.

[edit] Copyedit

I've made some much-needed copy-edits to this article. I reorganized content, and removed some redundant or senseless content (see my HTML comments in the article).

The article is either completely OR or is simply undercited. I have tagged the article accordingly. --Otheus 22:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Is this for real?

The original hair colour of Homo sapiens?

Lunakeet 20:23, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other hair colors?

Do some people have hair color that is outside of the range of the human visual spectrum? like somebody might have infrared hair, or ultraviolet hair. sometimes i look at bald people and think they might just have a whole mane of hair emitting a wavelength of like 2.4 Ghz. i might try to get bald people to come over and see if they interfere with my phones or wireless LAN.

seriously, it's possible.

66.190.142.200 (talk) 08:23, 16 May 2008 (UTC)