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Nature 434, 18 (3 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434018a; Published online 2 March 2005

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Ethics and ethnoflora

Tony Miller1 & Miranda Morris2

  1. Royal Botanic Garden, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK
  2. School of History, University of St Andrews, St Katherine's Lodge, The Scores, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, UK

Pleased though we were to read the generous and thorough review of our book Ethnoflora of the Soqotra Archipelago in Nature ("Back to the roots" Nature 432, 805–806; 2004), we feel that — given the politically sensitive environment in which we work — we need to address the comment that "many ethical issues ... are not generally considered in this book".We were scrupulous, for example, about informing all those who contributed to our book about their intellectual property rights.

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