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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed rapid growth in descriptive neuroanatomy. This period of intensive study of nervous systems in a wide variety of vertebrates resulted in several hypotheses concerning the origin and subsequent evolution of the otic and lateralis systems. These hypotheses possess two common features: they are based on descriptive anatomical material and were not tested experimentally as the appropriate techniques did not yet exist; and they reflect certain supposed anatomical relationships among an amniotic vertebrates that were believed to form a linear series of increasingly complex groups.
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Northcutt, R.G. (1980). Central Auditory Pathways in Anamniotic Vertebrates. In: Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) Comparative Studies of Hearing in Vertebrates. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8074-0_3
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