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**Small Dogs might originate from wolves** 24 February 2010

It is very weird for small dogs to come from big dogs. It especially weird for small dogs to come from wolves, and its even weirder for small dogs to come for wolves that are from Middle Asia. This possible by taking the Mitochondrial DNA, that is taken from their mother. These animals lived from 5,000 and 16,000 in East Asia. The authors wrote that: "Grey wolf haplotypes [groups of genes that an organism inherits together from a single parent] from the Middle East have higher nucleotide diversity suggesting an origin there.” These dogs from the Middle East were rather small, and most scientist think that they originated from there

Kristen Briggs MArch 19, 2010