![]() ![]() ![]() The Crakers are a particularly interesting example because they are humanoid, with certain human traits, and the book constantly asks the reader if they are human, and if they are, what makes them so. They have color-changing sex organs like a baboon, a digestive system like a rabbit, and the smell of a citrus plant. The most distinctive blend of human and animal are Crake’s genetically engineered creation, The Crakers. They are the book’s first, but certainly not only, example of transgressing the divide between human and animal. ![]() Their partially human makeup makes it so that people are uncomfortable with the idea of eating them, because it seems vaguely cannibalistic. Pigoons, for example, are pigs that grow human organs and even human brain tissue (for the purpose of transplantation). The advanced science achieved in the world of the novel has challenged the distinction between human and animal. ![]()
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