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Dogs have a reduced non-functional digit on their paws known as a declaw

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It is called a vestigial structure.

Vestigial structures are anatomical features that do not have a purpose in the present form of the species. It is homologous to other species' structures that is functioning purposefully.

It is considered a proof of evolution.

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