Vote for your story of the year – evolution
ByEd Yong
December 21, 2009
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)
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