Ella al-Shamahi is a palaeoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist who grew up as a creationist. … [She] thought she’d be able to prove Darwin’s theory of evolution was wrong.
Instead, she was convinced the science was right, and that led to major, sometimes painful, changes in her beliefs and her life.
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Al-Shamahi is the host of the PBS Nova series “Human,” which follows how homo sapiens became the dominant human species.
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