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Summary of “How Did We Get Here?” In the film, “How Did We Get Here?” BBC discusses about how the Earth and life came into place. Through religious teachings and stories, people assumed the answer, but it was not the case. Sloan, a botanist, had an immense interest in finding medicinal plants in nature. It brought out the idea of diversity through public museums. Moreover, in France, fossils were discovered and were later interpreted that “the Earth is older than previously believed” (BBC). Later, Buffon made attempts to calculate the Earth’s age through heating iron balls and counting how long it took for them to cool. His approach was inaccurate, but demonstrated how the Earth’s history should be investigated. During the eighteenth century,

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