Extinction

id: extinction-176-169614
title: Extinction
text: Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recover. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" after a period of apparent absence. More than 99% of all sp
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description: Termination of a taxon by the death of its last member
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction
date created: 2002-04-17T11:23:05Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T13:01:38Z
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