Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02526-1, published online 9 September 2024.

Armed conflicts inflict a massive toll on people and nature, but hope exists in the recognition that lasting peace can be closely tied to ecosystem restoration

A dinosaur with a disputed name opened Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan’s eyes to the world of palaeobiology.

A palaeontologist of varied interests who realized biomineralized fauna were key to understanding early animal evolution

Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02554-x, published online 29 October 2024.

arising from F. Saleh et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02331-w (2024) Saleh et al.1 announced the Cabrières Biota as a new exceptionally preserved fossil assemblage (Konservat-Lagerstätte) of Early Ordovician age dominated by sponges and algae. New deposits of this type are needed to better understand Ordovician ecology and biodiversification and the Cabrières assemblage

Accuracy and clarity in the names of species are achieved through globally agreed rules: the various international codes of nomenclature. For plants, proposed amendments to these rules1 are debated during a week-long side meeting of the International Botanical Congress, which is held once every six years — most recently in Madrid in mid-July 2024 (ref. 2). Amendments accepted by delegates to that meeting

National plans submitted ahead of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP16 in Columbia should prioritize action over empty ambition, and must integrate with other nations’ plans to constructively work towards global aims.

Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1274-7, published online 10 August 2020.

Theoretical biologist who ‘tamed’ mathematicians and tested the theory of evolution.

The Invention of Prehistory: Empires, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins Stefanos GeroulanosLIVERIGHT PRESS: 2024. 512 pp. £22.99 The study of the human past matters for an array of positive and negative reasons. A new book from historian Stefanos Geroulanos promises to explore those reasons — but also to question the worth of studying human origins altogether — by reviewing the histories

Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02511-8, published online 27 August 2024.