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The interest in brain organization of elasmobranchs relates to the evolutionary history of the group. The best paleontological information suggests an origin in the early Devonian period, some 400 million years ago, or 250 million years before the African and American continents separated. The sharks evolved rapidly in Devonian times and continued their expansion through the Carboniferous and Permian periods. The available data suggest that the group was successful early and that relatively few selective pressures for structural modification have taken place since those early days.
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Ebbesson, S.O.E. (1980). On The Organization of the Telencephalon in Elasmobranchs. In: Ebbesson, S.O.E. (eds) Comparative Neurology of the Telencephalon. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2988-6_1
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