Episode 056 - Tilly Edinger | Paleoneurologist

Alternate Title: A HEAD of her time

Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Tilly Edinger, who combined paleontology and neurology to found the field of paleoneurology. She used endocasts of brains of extant and extinct animals to answer questions about brain evolution, provide crucial evidence for cladogenesis, and assess the behavior of extinct animals.

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Sources

Main Story  

1. Wilson, Laura. “Tilly Edinger.” Trowelblazers.  https://trowelblazers.com/tilly-edinger/
2. Buchholtz, Emily A. and Ernst-August Seyfarth. “The Study of “Fossil Brains”: Tilly Edinger (1897–1967) and the Beginnings of Paleoneurology”, BioScience, Volume 51, Issue 8, 2001. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/51/8/674/220658
3. Buchholtz, Emily A. and Ernst-August Seyfarth. “The gospel of the fossil brain: Tilly Edinger and the science of paleoneurology”, Brain Research Bulletin, Volume 48, No 4, 1999. http://academics.wellesley.edu/Biology/Faculty/Emily/BRB48(4).pdf
4. Wikipedia Article, “Tilly Edinger.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Edinger
5. McNeill, Leila.“The woman who shaped the study of fossil brains,” Smithsonian Magazine, March 1, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-shaped-study-fossil-brains-180968254/

 

Women who Work 

• Brumfield, Ben. “People Think Robots Are Pretty Incompetent and Not Funny, New Study Says.” Georgia Institute of Technology. May, 2020.

https://chi.gatech.edu/people-think-robots-are-pretty-incompetent-and-not-funny/

 

Music

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Work” by Rihanna

 

Cover Image

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TillyEdinger.jpg