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Friends do it strangers do it and so do chimpanzees and its not just deeply embedded in our history and culture it may even be written in our DNA The humble handshake it turns out has a rich and surprising history
So lets join palaeoanthropologist Ella AlShamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery from the handshakes origins at least seven million years ago all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020 Drawing on new research anthropological insights and firsthand experience shell reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact
Because the story of the handshake is far from over
Its a little book of wonder its fantastic CHRIS EVANS
A fabulously sparky wideranging and horizonbroadening little study joyously unboring SUNDAY TIMES
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