diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Imports:
     stats,
     MASS,
     igraph,
-    lifecycle, 
     utils,
     expm
 Encoding: UTF-8
@@ -37,4 +36,3 @@ Suggests:
     RColorBrewer,
     deldir
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
-RdMacros: lifecycle
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 <!-- badges: start -->
 [![Travis build status](https://travis-ci.com/rowlandseymour/BSBT.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/rowlandseymour/BSBT)
 [![R build status](https://github.com/rowlandseymour/BSBT/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](https://github.com/rowlandseymour/BSBT/actions)
-[![Lifecycle: stable](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-stable-brightgreen.svg)](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html)
 [![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/BSBT)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BSBT)
 <!-- badges: end -->
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diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## Resubmission
 This is a resubmission. In this version I have:
 
-* Replaced the invalid lifecycle URL in README.md
+* Removed lifecycle package
 
 
 ## Test environments
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