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