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  • 51Rousseau (Jean-Jacques) and Burke — Jean Jacques Rousseau and Burke Ian Harris Those who thought about the social and political order directed their attention to a new centre of interest towards the end of the seventeenth century. It was not that speculation about political… …

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  • 52Blackjack — This article is about the gambling game. For other uses, see Black Jack (disambiguation). A game of blackjack with a blackjack hand of 21. Blackjack, also known as Twenty one or Vingt et un (French: twenty one ), is the most widely played casino… …

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  • 53Sexual selection — This article is about the evolutionary concept. For the selection of the sex of offspring, see sex selection. Goldie s Bird of paradise: Ornamented male above; female below. Paradesia decora by John Gerrard Keulemans (d.1912) Sexual selection, a… …

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  • 54Chess strategy — is the aspect of chess playing that is concerned with the evaluation of chess positions and the setting of goals and long term plans for future play. While evaluating a position strategically, a player must take into account such factors as the… …

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  • 55Chemical biology — is a scientific discipline spanning the fields of chemistry and biology that involves the application of chemical techniques and tools, often compounds produced through synthetic chemistry, to the study and manipulation of biological systems.… …

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  • 56Koinophilia — is a term used in biology, meaning that when sexual creatures seek a mate, they prefer that mate not to have any unusual, peculiar or deviant features. Stated differently, sexual creatures prefer mates with a preponderance of common or average… …

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  • 57Placebo — For other uses, see Placebo (disambiguation) and Placebo effect (disambiguation). Sugar pill redirects here. For Kids of 88 album, see Sugarpills. The placebo effect can be produced by inert tablets, by sham surgery, and by false information,… …

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  • 58Decision making — For Decision making in groups, see Group decision making. Sample flowchart representing the decision process to add a new article to Wikipedia. Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes (cognitive process) resulting in the selection …

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  • 59The Theory of the Leisure Class — Infobox Book | name = The Theory of the Leisure Class title orig = translator = image caption = author = Thorstein Veblen illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = societal study publisher = release… …

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  • 60Heterozygote advantage — A heterozygote advantage (heterozygous advantage) describes the case in which the heterozygote genotype has a higher relative fitness than either the homozygote dominant or homozygote recessive genotype. The specific case of heterozygote… …

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