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Many orthogeneticists argued that species and other taxa undergo the same transformation as individuals: they are born, develop and die. While the environment or competitors can indeed cause extinction, senile and weak groups, which are about to die anyway, are the first to succumb. Their opponents claimed that extinction was always a forced process caused by competitors and/or changing conditions and/or direct extermination and that the origin and evolution of species was not age-related. A lack of convincing explanations of past extinctions testifies in favour of species senescence.
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Popov, I. (2018). Species Senescence. In: Orthogenesis versus Darwinism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95144-7_9
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