Paging the Gingas

Oddly, it seems your particular deformity has been around for quite some
time:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8481448.stm

That would appear to blow evolution right out of the water, since it
should have fizzled out many millennia ago.

 

Not at all. It's virtually impossible to remove a gene for a specific
phenotype like that from the genome. cf Peppered moths.

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Ahh, but it's also functional. Firstly ginger kids provide a focus
for all the other children to tease, and secondly ginger hair and fair
skin mean that the body can produce more vitamin D in low light
conditions (which is probably how the genetic variation became
favoured).

 

he couldn't outrun an astra merit, let alone any other form of ast*

 

Outrunning is like admitting defeat.

Asteroid, Astra Merit, Seat Ibiza.. doesn't matter.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge

How very different the history of the world could have been.

"The asteroid enters the atmosphere. Nothing, it seems, can save the
dinosaurs now. But wait! A small Gingasaurus emerges from the forest,
nuts the asteroid and it returns to orbit. A nearby mammal is heard to
say 'Oh bugger...'"