... his novel: The theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science such as; it is the advancement of science as it affects human individuals. The triumphs of physics, chemistry, and engineering are tacitly taken for granted. The only scientific advances to be specifically described are those involving the application to human beings of the results of future research ... -about seven years before Watson and Crick explained the structure of the DNA molecule. In 1980 Richard J. Barnet called breakthroughs in genetic engineering "the most audacious technological fact in human history-...

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