"Moreauvian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008 February 19, Philip Armstrong, What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 194:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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",
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        "Playing God, particularly in attempting to blur the distinction between humans and animals."
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