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Tilly Edinger (1897–1967) was a German-American paleontologist who established the modern field of paleoneurology. In 1929, she published Die fossilen Gehirne (Fossil Brains), a groundbreaking study that mapped the evolution of the brain by examining fossilized braincases. After fleeing Nazi Germany...
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Founder of paleoneurology; exceptionally influential synthesis of brain evolution, widely honored as a disciplinary pioneer.
Scoring methodologyAriana Paulina-Carabajal is an Argentine paleoneurologist who earned her doctorate in 2009 for research on the braincases of theropod dinosaurs.
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Alternate rendering of Paulina Carabajal; highly regarded dinosaur paleoneurologist whose imaging research has advanced understanding of archosaur brains and sensory systems.
Scoring methodologyLeslie Aiello is a British-American paleoanthropologist known for co-developing the expensive tissue hypothesis with Peter Wheeler, which proposes that the evolutionary expansion of the hominin brain was made possible by a corresponding reduction in the size of the digestive tract, enabled by dietar...
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Expensive tissue hypothesis influential in human evolution; strong specialist reputation.
Scoring methodologyDean Falk is an American evolutionary anthropologist whose research examines brain evolution in humans and other primates. She is known for studying fossil endocasts, which preserve impressions of the internal surface of the skull and can provide evidence about brain size and organization. Falk also...
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Brain evolution and Homo floresiensis work visible; respected but contested in places.
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