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Paul Broca
Born 200 years ago on 28/06/2024

Paul Broca

French Anthropologist


Dead at 56 years
Birthday
Monday
He is born 199 years, 9 months and 1 day ago
Death date
Friday

He is dead since 143 years, 8 months and 20 days

Cause of death: cerebral hemorrhage

Birthplace
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France
Nationality: french France
Birth sign: Cancer

Pierre Paul Broca (, also UK: , US: , French: [pɔl bʁɔka]; 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involved with language. His work revealed that the brains of patients with aphasia contained lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region. This was the first anatomical proof of localization of brain function.

Broca's work contributed to the development of physical anthropology, advancing the science of anthropometry, and craniometry, in particular, the now-discredited practice of determining intelligence. He was engaged in comparative anatomy of primates and humans and proposed that Negroes were an intermediate form between apes and Europeans. He saw each racial group as its own species and believed racial mixing eventually led to sterility.

Source : Wikipedia