Tilly Edinger: The Paleoneurologist Saved By Her Science
Podcast: Lost Women of SciencePublished On: Thu Jun 11 2026
Description: 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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