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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-07-21 and was most recently seen on 2026-07-21.
Intellectual inbreeding or academic inbreeding is the practice in academia of a university hiring its own graduates who have not had experience as professors at any other universities. It is generally viewed as insular and unhealthy for academia. Intellectual inbreeding is thought to hinder the introduction of ideas from outside sources, just as genetic inbreeding hinders the introduction of new genes into a population.
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