Tag: Research

• April 18, 2018

  Can Laughter Make Our Lives Better? Researchers Say Yes

  

  Research from the UA's Eller College of Management suggests that humor is a good thing in certain situations, but its effectiveness depends on your end goal.

• April 16, 2018

  Chickens ‘closer to dinosaurs’ than other birds

  New research suggests that chickens have experienced fewer gross genomic changes than other birds as they evolved from their dinosaur ancestor.

• February 27, 2018

  University Biologists Find Answer to 100-Year-Old Question

  

  The UA team, headed by Michael S. Barker, assistant professor and director of bioinformatics in the UA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has found that polyploidy, the duplication of whole genomes, has occurred many times during the evolution of insects, the most diverse group of animals.