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?(trends)