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You are a scientist working on an endangered bird population in Tasmania. Recently, domestic cats were released in Tasmania and have been wreaking havoc (i.e. killing) many of the individuals of this population. Through careful behavioral observation you recognize that the cats seem to cue in on birds that have more blue coloration compared to greener individuals that are harder to spot. Working with a zoo, you're designing a captive breeding program with the aim of helping this bird population evolve greener plumage . If the original wild bird population shows an average coloration of 426 nm (a measurement of color wavelength), and each year you only allow individuals that are 20nm greener than the average to breed (this would be individuals that are 446nm in the first generation), how many generations of breeding will it take for the population to evolve to a intense green coloration of 540nm? Your previous work suggests that heritability of coloration is 0.15.



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