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Laura Spinney

Laura Spinney
Laura Spinney is a science journalist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has published two novels in English, and her writing on science has appeared in National Geographic, Nature, the Economist and the Guardian, among others. She is also the author of Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (2025), the story of the Indo-European languages.


How Language Evolved Out of Cultural Exchange Between Europe and the Near East

Laura Spinney on the Development of Early Human Civilization Across Eurasia
May 15, 2025  By Laura Spinney
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