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Published online 12 January 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010118-2
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Science is all about networking
Patterns of scientific collaboration shed light on the structure of society.
In his 1990 play Six Degrees of Separation John Guare claimed that: "Everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people." No one is sure whether this is true because friendship networks are notoriously hard to track.
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