Objectivity, Social Sciences, and the Charge of Inferiority

This paper challenges the charge of inferiority, on the basis of objectivity, against the social sciences.The idea of objectivity is that facts about the state of the world and entities in it are observed or studied without a taint of personal bias, value judgement or particular perspective.The social sciences are accused of falling short of the re

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The cis-regulatory effects of modern human-specific variants

The Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes enabled the discovery of sequences that differ between modern and archaic humans, the majority of which are noncoding.However, our understanding of the regulatory consequences of arrethe bush balm these differences remains limited, in part due to the decay of regulatory marks in ancient samples.Here, we used a

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