Vote for your story of the year - evolution

We're into the home stretch now. This is the seventh of nine polls where you get to pick your favourite stories of the year from this blog. We've had a variety of topics already and today, it's evolution. Your choices:

• Robots evolve to deceive one another

• How the turtle got its shell through skeletal shifts and muscular origami

• Scientists tickle apes to reveal evolutionary origins of human laughter

• How diversity creates itself - cascades of new species among flies and parasitic wasps

• Museum butterfly collections chronicle evolutionary war against male-killers

• Decay of enamel-forming gene linked to evolutionary loss of enamel

• One jump from chimps to humans - the origin of malaria

• Wasps use genes stolen from ancient viruses to make biological weapons

What's your favourite evolution story of the year?

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