Claudine Cohen teaches the history of science at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She is the author or coauthor of "La Genese de Telliamed: Theorie de la terre et histoire naturelle a l'aube des Lumieres; Boucher de Perthes: Les Origines romantiques de la prehistoire; and "L'Homme des origines: Savoirs et fictions en prehistoire. She is currently writing a new book about women in prehistory and preparing (with Andre Wakefield) the first English edition of Leibniz's "Protogaea.