Ella Al-Shamahi is a paleoanthropologist, National Geographic Explorer, stand-up comic and TV presenter. She specialises in Palaeolithic cave exploration in politically unstable and disputed territories and authored The Handshake: A Gripping History. She currently has a BBC Radio 4 podcast called Why Do We Do That: An Anthropologist’s Guide To The Modern World. Her recent TV shows include Tutankhamun/ Tut’s Toxic Tomb for Channel 4, National Geographic and Discovery, What Killed The Whale for Channel 4 and Our Changing Planet for BBC1.