In the News Feature 'The fate of fingers' (Nature 455, 160–164; 2008), we misspelled the name of Matthew Porteus of the University of Texas: apologies. In the News Feature 'Postmodern evolution?' (Nature 455, 281–284; 2008), we should have identified Susan Mazur as the first to use the term 'The Woodstock of Evolution' to describe the Altenberg meeting.