I started a doing-in-public project, exploring the absence of women in Jason Roberts' *Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life*, which won a few awards this year. Hopefully this leads to thinking through other ways his story might have been approached/constructed.

First step: how many women are actually mentioned in the book?

I started counting and blogged about it. Spoiler alert: not many.

https://nearerandfarther.com/posts/2025/12/counting-women-in-jason-roberts-every-living-thing-pt-1/

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"For much of the eighteenth century, two men raced each other to complete a comprehensive account of all life on Earth. At stake was not just scholarly immortality but the very nature of our relationship to nature--the concepts and principles we use to comprehend the living world."

-- #FirstSentences of Jason Roberts, "Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life"

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The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change | Charles Darwin | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/07/the-french-aristocrat-who-understood-evolution-100-years-before-darwin-and-even-worried-about-climate-change

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