Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2153-8Published online 01 April 2020

In this Article, the sentence beginning ‘However, pairwise divergence…’ erroneously cited Fig. 3b instead of Fig. 2b. The full sentence should therefore read: ‘However, pairwise divergence of the amino acid sequences between H. antecessor and the clade containing H. sapiens, Neanderthals and the Denisovan is larger than the divergence between the members of this clade (Fig. 2b, Supplementary Fig. 12, Supplementary Information).’. The Article has been corrected online.