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Origins [2007]

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Antibiotic Resistance: An Ecological Imbalance
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Introduction
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The Epidemiology of Obesity
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Rocks
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The Concept of ‘Giftedness’: A Pentagonal Implicit Theory
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Origins, Acquisition and Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants
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Obesity in the Caribbean
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Giftedness and Intelligence: One and the Same?
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The Day the Solar System Lost a Planet
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The Relationship Between Erythromycin Consumption and Resistance in Finland
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Obesity in Peoples of the African Diaspora
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Psychological Profiles of the Mathematically Talented: Some Sex Differences and Evidence Supporting their Biological Basis
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The Contribution of Antibiotic use on the Frequency of Antibiotic Resistance in Hospitals
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Metabolic Consequences of Obesity and Body Fat Pattern: Lessons from Migrant Studies
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ET and the Exoplanets
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Impact of Antibiotic use in Animal Feeding on Resistance of Bacterial Pathogens in Humans
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Genetics and High Cognitive Ability
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Diabetes
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The Effect of Monitoring of Antibiotic use on Decreasing Antibiotic Resistance in the Hospital
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Connections
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The Early Lives of Child Prodigies
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Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
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The Antibiotic Selective Process: Concentration‐Specific Amplification of Low‐Level Resistant Populations
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Musical Ability
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Genetics of Obesity in Humans: Current Issues
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The Within‐Host Population Dynamics of Antibacterial Chemotherapy: Conditions for the Evolution of Resistance
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The Final Frontier
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Nutritional Influences in Early Life upon Obesity and Body Proportions
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Boys and Girls Who Reason Well Mathematically
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The Cost of Antibiotic Resistance—from the Perspective of a Bacterium
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Overconsumption as a Cause of Weight Gain: Behavioural–Physiological Interactions in the Control of Food Intake (Appetite)
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Scientific Ability
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Silent Movie
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The Evolution of β‐Lactamases
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Obesity and Metabolic Efficiency
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Mechanical Inventiveness: A Three‐Phase Study
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Molecular Evolution of Multiply‐Antibiotic‐Resistant Staphylococci
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Socioeconomic Status and Obesity
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The Relationship between Early Giftedness and Later Achievement
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The History of Galaxies
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Family Influences on the Development of Giftedness
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Mobile Gene Cassettes and Integrons: Moving Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Gram‐Negative Bacteria
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The Economic and Psychosocial Consequences of Obesity
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Genetic Mobility and Distribution of Tetracycline Resistance Determinants
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Accelerating Language Acquisition
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Obesity and Physical Activity
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Watching the Big Bang on Television
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Can We Create Gifted People?
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Epidemiological Factors Influencing the Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance
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Coherent, Preventive and Management Strategies for Obesity
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Summary
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Index of Contributors
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Plato’s Ghost
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Subject Index
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Closing Remarks
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Index of Contributors
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Subject Index
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Summary
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Appendix
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Index of Contributors
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Subject Index
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