Brave New Organism In Aldous Huxley's Criticism

Brave New Organism
Aldous Huxley's satire Brave New World wholly accosts genetic engineering by modifying the humans of the novel to perfectly fit into a physically based group. The humans are cloned and changed by scientists of the society along a gene-modifying assembly line that physically changes what the society will look like when the individuals grow older. They then change the sex of the embryos through differences in heating. Huxley demonstrates how genetic engineering can be used unethically to universalize societies instead of personally improve the human race.
The only cloning leading up to the 1930’s was done by Hans Spemann, Walter Heape, and Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch. In 1885 Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch separated two sea urchin cells to create two separate sea urchins. In 1890 Walter Heape used in vitro fertilization,”a medical procedure whereby an egg is fertilized by sperm in a test tube or elsewhere outside the body”(Oxford), to create a rabbit. In 1902 Hans Spemann split

During the 1860s Gregor Mendel genetically experimented with pea plants to test differences in outcomes. Other than Gregor Mendel, there was almost no genetically modifying leading into the 1930s. Most genetic modification occurred after the novel was written. Examples of famous genetically modified organisms are Herman the bull, which was the first genetically modified bovine, and ANDI, a genetically modified monkey to glow in the dark. “A GMO (genetically modified organism) is the result of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially forced into the genes of an unrelated plant or animal”(Smith). The type of genetic modification Huxley is referencing has not been discovered, but it is close to becoming a reality today. “The potential to genetically modify human germlines has reached a critical tipping point with recent applications of CRISPR-Cas9”