Paul Broca

Pierre Paul Broca was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He was born in SainteFoylaGrande, Gironde. He is best known for his research on Brocas area, a region of the frontal lobe that has been named after him. Brocas Area is involved with language. His work revealed that the brains of patients suffering from aphasia contained lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region. This was the first anatomical proof of the localization of brain function. Brocas work also contributed to the development of physical anthropology, advancing the science of anthropometry.

Paul Broca was born onJune 1824 in SainteFoylaGrande, Bordeaux, France, the son of Benjamin Broca, a medical practitioner and former surgeon in Napoleons service. Brocas mother was the daughter of a Protestant preacher. Broca received basic education in the school in his hometown, earning a bachelors degree at the age of 16. He entered medical school in Paris when he was 17, and graduated at 20, when most of his contemporaries were just beginning as medical students.

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