Author Correction: New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution.

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In situ Raman spectroscopy of uranyl peroxide nanoscale cage clusters under hydrothermal conditions.

Aqueous solutions containing the nanoscale uranyl peroxide cage clusters U, [(UO)(O)(OH)], and UOx, [{(UO)(O)}(CO)], were monitored by in situ Raman spectroscopy during stepwise heating to 180 °C. In solutions containing U, clusters persist to 120 °C, although conversion of U to U, [(UO)(O)(OH)], occurs above 100 °C. UOx persisted in solutions heated to 150 °C, although partial conversion to smaller uranyl peroxide clusters species was observed beginning at 100 °C.

New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution.

The evolutionary history of extant hominoids (humans and apes) remains poorly understood. The African fossil record during the crucial time period, the Miocene epoch, largely comprises isolated jaws and teeth, and little is known about ape cranial evolution. Here we report on the, to our knowledge, most complete fossil ape cranium yet described, recovered from the 13 million-year-old Middle Miocene site of Napudet, Kenya.