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Origin of Small Dogs Pinned Down.

The ancestor of all those Chihuahuas, spaniels and tiny terriers likely came from the Middle East, a new study finds.

They found that the wolves didn't posses this variant of the IGF1 gene, which shows that this mutation for small body size arose after dogs were first domesticated.

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