Biblatex sees 2 names as 1

Question

For 1 specific citation (and only for that one) with many authors, biblatex keeps on using "author1, author2, et al" even though for everything else it is correctly using only 1 author when there are more than 2 authors (i.e. "author1, et al")

edit: So I've found the culprit. I have two citations with the same first author, and biblatex isn't liking it. Since the publications are on different years though, I'm not sure why this is causing an issue.

MWE:

 \documentclass[letterpaper, 10pt]{article}
% Using BIBER
\usepackage[backend=biber,sorting=nyt,style=authoryear,maxnames=2]{biblatex}
\usepackage{placeins}
\addbibresource{bibblio.bib}
\renewcommand{\bibfont}{\small}
\begin{document}
I want to cite \cite{hutter2012starleth} and \cite{hutter2010slip}.
\printbibliography
\end{document}

And the bib file is:

@book{hutter2012starleth,
  title={StarlETH: A compliant quadrupedal robot for fast, efficient, and versatile locomotion},
  author={Hutter, Marco and Gehring, Michael and Bloesch, Michael and Mark, A Hoepflinger and Remy, C David and Siegwart, Roland Yves},
  year={2012},
  publisher={World Scientific}
}

@inproceedings{hutter2010slip,
  title={Slip running with an articulated robotic leg},
  author={Hutter, Marco and Remy, C David and Hopflinger, MA and Siegwart, Roland},
  booktitle={Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on},
  pages={4934--4939},
  year={2010},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Would you mind providing us with an MWE (http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that) - complete with this citation, so that we have something to work with? Otherwise it's very difficult to answer this question — Au101, Oct 08 '15 at 01:41
As I mention, I tried making a MWE, but it doesn't reproduce the error... I can make it anyway, but I'm not sure that it helps... I can also put a dropbox link with the actual original files, if that perhaps helps more... — Steve Heim, Oct 08 '15 at 01:43
But it would be useful to at least see the citation, maybe any other packages you're using, otherwise there's very little to go on! — Au101, Oct 08 '15 at 01:45
Yeah, wait, I may have found it now (was trying to make the MWE and actually reproduce the error). Give me a moment, and I'll get back — Steve Heim, Oct 08 '15 at 01:49
Thanks. Actually the solution was uniquelist=false, but your comment pointed me in the correct direction. Also note, it's uniquename, without the plural 's'. — Steve Heim, Oct 08 '15 at 02:16
Seems like this is a duplicate of Set limit to one author when using “et al.” in biblatex or Biblatex: Have only one author in citation — multiple articles with same first author, different year. You could also have a look at uniquelist=minyear, please see the biblatex documentation, pp. 59-60, 237-238 for more details. — moewe, Oct 08 '15 at 05:32
Yeah, at first I had no idea what the problem was, so I didn't know what to search for (see edit). Does seem like a duplicate... what's the policy, should I delete it in this case? — Steve Heim, Oct 09 '15 at 00:00
Good, I have voted to close your question as a duplicate then. There is no need to delete the question, since it remains searchable it might help other people find their way to the answer. — moewe, Oct 09 '15 at 07:30

Biblatex sees 2 names as 1

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