The long and the short and the tall

What, genetically, distinguishes one breed of dog from another is now becoming apparent

A DOG may be man’s best friend. But man is not always a dog’s. Over the centuries selective breeding has pulled at the canine body shape to produce what is often a grotesque distortion of the underlying wolf. Indeed, some of these distortions are, when found in people, regarded as pathologies.

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