Lost Women of Science

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Tilly Edinger: The Paleoneurologist Saved By Her Science

Tilly Edinger: The Paleoneurologist Saved By Her Science11 jun31 min

How much can you understand about a brain when that brain is long gone? Tilly Edinger, a Jewish paleontologist, used fossilized skulls to study the evolution of brains. That research allowed her to escape Nazi Germany in 1939, and create a new subdivision of paleontology, paleoneurology.