GPT explains (level =C2; CEFR aligned):
Species counts over the last 600 Myr
Palaeodiversity has behaved less like a polite exponential curve and more like a heart-rate monitor on espresso: adaptive radiations inflate the ledger, bolide impacts and anoxic oceans promptly shred it, and climate oscillations keep resetting the clock. So yes—both increased and decreased is the sophisticated way of admitting that nature has been running a 600-million-year yo-yo experiment we still struggle to graph without disclaimers. 😶🌫️