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Laura Spinney

About the Author

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.

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