{"podcast":{"title":"Recombination Nation","slug":"recombination-nation-7074994","podcast_index_feed_id":7074994,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/zeroinputagriculture/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/zeroinputagriculture","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/zeroinputagriculture/20251101_011137_8332e5c9d1ea11b2e70aae811057e22c.png","author":"Shane Simonsen","episode_count":84,"summary":"Explore the intersection of evolution, ecology and civilisation with crop and livestock breeders, low input farmers, social engineers and a dazzling array of deep thinkers. Read more of Shane Simonsen's work at the Recombination Nation substack.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T12:18:53.441680+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994"},"episode":{"title":"Eons of Life, Both Future and Past, with Professor Peter Ward","slug":"eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward","published_at":"2026-06-05T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994/eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/zeroinputagriculture/2791673","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/297868/2791673/zeroinputagriculture/2026_05_04_08_09_39_db884840-3b69-48b3-8a1b-903957f7b5f3.mp3","summary":"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/","meta_description":"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).…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5177,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/recombination-nation-7074994/episodes/eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994/eons-of-life-both-future-and-past-with-professor-peter-ward.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}