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Book review: Proto: how one ancient language went global, by Laura Spinney

6th July 2026 Going Postal 0

Who are we, and where did we come from? Might our ancestral languages hold the key? More years ago than I care to remember, as a teenager I came upon an old book published in [more…]

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