"One egg, one embryo, one adult- normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress" (Huxley 6).
Anchor Statement: Scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity.
In Chapter 1, we are given a taste of the novel as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning teaches his students about Bokanovsky's Process. This process is when one egg will bud, proliferate, and divide. These buds then grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and than every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making more than ten times more embryos and in turn more than ten times more human beings. This process can be classified as a scientific and technological advancement in the novel. I would qualify the statement that scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity. In this scenario I feel that although replicating an embryo can cause harm and its continuous use can cause a great deal of over population, I feel that this scientific advancement can be helpful for certain cases and certain people. Therefore this scientific advancement is both harmful and helpful therefore I qualify the anchor statement above.
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