Electrocuted in the shower, and red-headed Neanderthals
I just came across two unrelated BBC stories that, for some reason, seem to go well together. First, there's the story of the British dude electrocuted while on vacation with his girlfriend in Paris:
An inquest has heard how a Sussex man was electrocuted in the shower during a holiday with his partner.
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[His girlfriend] said: "He had been in there several minutes - long enough to have a shower - and all of a sudden I heard him scream 'argh'."
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[The coroner] said: "The [shower curtain] pole became live because it moved and had come into contact with or into very close proximity with the end shield of a wall-mounted lighting fixture or luminare.
So, be careful of showers in Paris hotel rooms.
Next, we learn that some Neanderthals were red-headed:
Writing in Science journal, a team of researchers extracted DNA from remains of two Neanderthals and retrieved part of an important gene called MC1R.
In modern people, a change - or mutation - in this gene causes red hair, but, until now, no one knew what hair colour our extinct relatives had.
By analysing a version of the gene in Neanderthals, scientists found that they also have sported fiery locks.
This would explain Stacey Campfield.