# Living in 'The What Ought to Be' with David Farrier

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Podcast: [The Nature Recovery Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158)
Published: 2025-12-03T07:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail Professor David Farrier (University of Edinburgh) discusses his 2025 book Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet and explores how rapid, human-driven evolutionary pressures reveal both the fragility and inventive resilience of life. We cover urban evolution (birds and snails), domestication and self-domestication, collective and distributed forms of intelligence across living systems, and how rethinking time can help us reconnect with the natural world. Th...

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