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A suggested solution to the semantic confusion would be to sharpen the distinction between paddleball and racquetball . These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle,' the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball , which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball.
A finer distinction: not just one bird for two, but a lowly bird instead of a lofty one.
We are happy to note that distinction, which readers may weigh for themselves.
In any case, one hardly hears anything else today but these can forms, which have somehow become the fashion: It can happen , We could be wrong . What we are therefore observing is the loss of a valuable distinction, and in fact the slow extinction of the verb may/might , an extinction which in the linguistic world seems to me just as distressing as the loss of the elephant in the zoological world.
At the core of such approaches stands therefore the distinction between orthologs and paralogs, and hence the ability to discriminate between duplication and speciation events on a gene tree.