About the Author

Claudine Cohen teaches the history of science at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She is the author or coauthor of La Genèse de Telliamed: Théorie de la terre et histoire naturelle à l'aube des Lumières; Boucher de Perthes: Les Origines romantiques de la préhistoire; and L'Homme des origines: Savoirs et fictions en préhistoire. She is currently writing a new book about women in prehistory and preparing (with André Wakefield) the first English edition of Leibniz's Protogaea.
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA