Laura Spinney

British science writer and journalist, author of 'Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World' and other works on pandemics, evolution, and public health.

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  1. 1. Proto

    How Infectious Diseases Made Modern Life
    Cover of 'Proto' by Laura Spinney

    Proto traces the origins and spread of Proto-Indo-European, a language born after the last ice age near the Black Sea, and how its speakers dispersed across Eurasia. Combining linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence, the book follows migrations and cultural encounters that gave rise to today’s largest language family and considers what that deep history reveals about language and human movement.

    The 13181st Greatest Book of All Time
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