# Eons of Life, Both Future and Past, with Professor Peter Ward

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994/eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994/eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward.md
Podcast: [Recombination Nation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994)
Published: 2026-06-05T03:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/zeroinputagriculture/2791673
Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/297868/2791673/zeroinputagriculture/2026_05_04_08_09_39_db884840-3b69-48b3-8a1b-903957f7b5f3.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/recombination-nation-7074994/episodes/eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward
Duration seconds: 5177

## Resource

Peter Ward is a palaeontologist and prolific author with books covering a vast range of the deep past and distant future of life on Earth (and beyond it). His book " Future Evolution: An Illuminated History of Life to Come" caught my attention and I was thrilled for the opportunity to drop an avalanche of speculative biology questions his way. You can find his books online and in major book stores: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Peter-Douglas-Ward/author/B001I9OZ12 Browse reviews on his many titles here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/28065.Peter_D_Ward Sign up to Recombination Nation on Substack for free weekly articles: https://recombinationnation.substack.com Read Shane's book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/recombination-nation-7074994/episodes/eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994/eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.