Teacher:In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: despite their similarity to members of the genus mus , scientists suspect that the african spiny mice may be more closely related to gerbils than to common mice.
Student:
despite their similarity to members of the genus mus , scientists suspect that the african spiny mouse may be more closely related to gerbils than to common mice.