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SUBMITTER: Grilli J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5530677 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grilli Jacopo J Allesina Stefano S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170703 29
In biology, last names have been used as proxy for genetic relatedness in pioneering studies of neutral theory and human migrations. More recently, analyzing the last name distribution of Italian academics has raised the suspicion of nepotism, with faculty hiring their relatives for academic posts. Here, we analyze three large datasets containing the last names of all academics in Italy, researchers from France, and those working at top public institutions in the United States. Through simple ra ...[more]