“…Indeed, marked similarities in BG-system organization and neuro-chemistry are recognized among the three living amniote classes [Northcutt, 1978;Ulinski, 1983;Reiner et al, 1984Reiner et al, , 1998Parent, 1986;Schwerdtfeger and Smeets, 1988;Smeets and Steinbusch, 1990;Karten, 1991;Gerfen, 1992;Smeets, 1992;Reiner, 1993;Joel and Weiner, 1994;Medina and Reiner, 1995;Parent and Hazrati, 1995a, b;Parent et al, 1995;ten Donkelaar, 1998a;Voogd et al, 1998]. Although the BG rudiments of extant anamniotes have clear homologies with the more elaborate BG of amniotes [Bruce and Neary, 1995;Medina and Reiner, 1995;Butler and Hodos, 1996;Parent, 1997;Marin et al, 1998;Reiner et al, 1998;ten Donkelaar, 1998b], most authors have been more impressed by the disparities in BG size, numbers of cells, organization, and inter-region connections of amniotes vs. anamniotes [Reiner et al, 1998].…”