Join Ella Al-Shamahi, National Geographic Explorer, paleoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist and stand-up comic
Many declared that March 2020 was the time to write the obituary of the handshake, that COVID had killed it. But the handshake is not just cultural, it’s biological, probably embedded in our DNA and at least 7 million years old. This is a paradigm shift from the lazy, oft-repeated ‘origin’ of the handshake as being a medieval way of showing that you don’t have a weapon.
In this talk, Ella Al-Shamahi argues that the handshake has an actual biological purpose. She asks what other pandemics through history, time and again, tell us about the ‘demise’ of the handshake. Spoiler alert: the handshake is going nowhere, like most of us it is just temporarily social distancing.
Ella Al-Shamahi is interested in how the sciences communicate paradigm shifts, old and new to the public. She will focus on the difficulties and successes of a few that she has tried to tackle in her TV shows; from Neanderthals, to female Viking warriors, and war zones to the Amazon’s indigenous inhabitants. | 
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