Earth has experienced numerous extinction events over time, some large and some small, but the historic pattern suggests that biodiversity has always rebounded and even increased strongly over the past 200 million years. This increase can probably be attributed to all of the following except Group of answer choices accumulation over time of diverse taxa with different lifestyles increase in land surface area over time separation of continents into independent land masses increase in diversity of habitats found on the earth’s surface

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Paleontology

A branch of science concerning the scientific study of life from ancient times is known as paleontology. The scientists working on paleontology are known as paleontologists. Paleontologists collect the fossils of organisms from ancient times to classify them. The paleontologists also study the environment from ancient times to study the interactions between different organisms.