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First mention of a woman contributing to the “history of nearly everything” and it’s a peasant woman that was excellent at finding fossils.

So far the history of nearly everything only notes academic minds of Northern Europe. I know not all can be covered, but at least consider including a singular non-white males contribution, perhaps the genesis of math, or language could be inspiring.

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So far, not a single reference to a woman

The thing I keep thinking while reading this is that it reminds me of Neil Degrasse Tyson's Cosmos series. There's just so much overlap between the topics it discusses, the history, people, theories and inventions it explores and the conversational style it uses in delivering the information to us.

This one is denser. But Degrasse Tyson didn't have 16 hours in which to break down his topics as Bill Bryson does.