Genealogical surveys show a high rate of non-paternal surname transmission with regional differences in Argentina

MUZZIO, M.; MOTTI, J.M.B.; CHIARULLO, S.M.; BRAVI, C.M.; BAILLIET, G.

HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology

ELSIEVER

Año: 2012 vol. 63 p. 43 - 49

0018-442X

Surnames are a vertically transmitted cultural trait that in Argentina follows the paternal line of descent when the paternity is known. There was a lack of empirical information regarding non-paternal surname transmissions among the general population, so we performed 2,550 genealogical interviews, which included 6,954 surname passes, in different regions of this country. We compared the proportion of non-paternal transmissions between the propositus and parental generation and found no significant difference between them (. p