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I guess the differentiation (if there be one) between shift and drift pales unto insignificance.
It is not so pale in my eyes. Talking of "shift" you normally focus on the initial and the final state, while "drift" emphasizes the gradualness of the change, i.e. intermediate states are known. I see some parallels in paleo-biology.
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