2% Neanderthal: Redrawing Our Family Tree

Evolutionary Biologist Ella Al-Shamahi may be the most unconventional paleoanthropologist working today. These days she wears three hats: leading expeditions into unstable and hostile territories to un-earth fossil records before they are wiped from the planet; as a TV Host guiding our journey around the planet to understand how it’s changing; and hitting open mic nights at stand-up festivals worldwide to keep from going mad from all of it. To chart a more sustainable future for ourselves, Al-Shamahi believes we need to understand why our recent ancestors failed.

The Kauffman Center has curated this speaker specifically from the Changemaker Speaker Series.