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Rob Dunn, a biologist and writer in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University, was the keynote speaker Thursday at the 68th annual Ogden Surgical Medical Society Conference in Ogden. The author of “The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today” discussed the various organisms that live around us — and actually on us. (Courtesy photo)

Biologist at medical conference in Ogden: Don’t be afraid of all organisms living on you

Last updated Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 11:14pm

OGDEN — How many organisms are living on your body?

Most of the genes living on you are viral, fungal and microbial — and your body has more of those on it than human genes, says an evolutionary ecologist.

Rob Dunn, a biologist and writer in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University, was the keynote speaker Thursday during the 68th annual Ogden Surgical Medical Society Conference at the Eccles Conference Center.

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The Mayan calendar, created more than five centuries ago, ends on 12/21/12, leading some to believe the world will end that day. (Courtesy photo)

Profs: 12/12/12 no luckier, no more alarming than any other date

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 7:23am

OGDEN — You may have noticed something repetitive about today’s date: 12/12/12.

According to news reports, churches around the world are booked for weddings of people who consider the day 12/12/12 to be lucky, or who may just want an easy way to remember their anniversary.

Or maybe you’re more focused on the date 12/21/12, just nine days hence, which the alarmists among us predict as the end of the world due to the limits of a Mayan calendar crafted five centuries ago.

If you’re seeing a pattern here, it’s because you are human.

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Cavemen were sailors

Helen Chappell News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 9:11am

Early manlike creatures may have been smarter than we think. Recent archaeological finds from the Mediterranean show that human ancestors traveled the high seas.

A team of researchers that included an North Carolina State University geologist found evidence that our ancestors were crossing open water at least 130,000 years ago. That's more than 100,000 years earlier than scientists had previously thought.

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Humans may have crowded out Neanderthals, study says

Amina Khan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 5:40pm

The Neanderthal never stood a chance. Modern humans who entered Europe may have outnumbered their hominid relatives 10 to 1, a new study has found.

The research, published online Thursday in the journal Science, helps explain why Neanderthals -- who had lived in Europe for at least 200,000 years -- died out about 40,000 years ago, soon after modern humans migrated from Africa.

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