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Comment author: passive_fist 09 December 2015 08:26:48PM 0 points [-]

No, it was assumed that genes controlling milk production were linear, because it was much easier to study them that way, and unfortunately over time many people came to simply accept that fact as true, when it has never been proven (in fact it's been proven conclusively otherwise).