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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...
Ariana Paulina-Carabajal is an Argentine paleoneurologist who earned her doctorate in 2009 for research on the braincases of theropod dinosaurs.
Leslie 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...
Dean 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...
