Moreauvian

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1. Playing God, particularly in attempting to blur the distinction between humans and animals.

   The novel's most Frankensteinian or Moreauvian project is again an exercise in 'man-making', the engineering of a new strain of hominid, the Crakers.

   2008 February 19, Philip Armstrong, What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 194

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   While many scientists think human cloning is possible and inevitable, others think it is likely that human clones already exist, perhaps in hideous forms where they are studied on a Moreauvian island.

   2020 December 17, Steven Best, Douglas Kellner, The Postmodern Adventure: Science Technology and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium, Routledge, →ISBN, page 177

   There were attractions based on the works of H.G. Wells - a laboratory where you could assemble your own Moreauvian pet, a simulator that let you grow to fifty-feet tall or five-centimeters short

   2022 September 30, Eirik Gumeny, Beggars Would Ride, Norway's Bravest Son Publishing House