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Sep 2024
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Introducing Eons: Surviving Deep Time

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Introducing Eons: Surviving Deep Time! Season 2 of the Eons podcast is a longform exploration of a question we’re often asked: how long could a human survive if they were dropped into a particular period of the geologic past? 

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