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Nature 452, 690-691 (10 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452690a; Published online 9 April 2008

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BOOK REVIEWEDLife As It Is: Biology for the Public Sphere

by William F. Loomis

University of California Press: 2008. 272 pp. $24.95

Science's task is to explain the natural world: what it is, how it works and why it is the way it is. Ethics is about the oughts and the shoulds.

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