When1: 1861
When2: 1878
Who: Paul Pierre Broca [Broca, Paul Pierre]
What: surgeon/anthropologist
Where: Paris, France
works\ On the principal of cerebral localizations [1861]; New observation of aphasia produced by lesion in the posterior part of second and third convolution of the left frontal lobe [1861]; Memoranda of Anthropology [1871 to 1878: three volumes]
Detail: He lived 1824 to 1880, developed skull-measuring instruments, and studied prehistoric skull trephining. He first described Cro-Magnon and Aurignacian man. He disproved theory {Celtic myth} that Celts constituted a racial group with inherited characteristics [1866]. Frontal-lobe-third or inferior-gyrus damage {Broca's area, Broca} makes people unable to speak [1861].
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