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Noun: Pierre-Paul Broca
  1. French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)
    - Broca

Type of: anthropologist

Encyclopedia: Pierre-Paul Broca