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Dairy farmers are sometimes frustrated in their attempts to breed a better milk cow becaus...

Dairy farmers are sometimes frustrated in their attempts to breed a better milk cow because heritability values for milk production and reproductive traits are low—generally below 0.10. In addition, those cows that produce the most milk tend to have longer intervals between birth of successive calves and require more breedings to a bull before the cow will conceive. Do these patterns make sense in light of evolutionary life-history theory? Explain.

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