Episode

Tilly Edinger: The Paleoneurologist Saved By Her Science

Podcast: Lost Women of Science
Published: Jun 11, 2026
Duration seconds: 1872
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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