evolution and extrinction theme

Question 1

work in the compounds

Answer 1

the modification of animals, gene splicing, building new viruses and immunities - describes as an extension or acceleration of evolution

Question 2

Extinctathon

Answer 2

involves memorising and cataloguing the increasingly long list of species that have gone extinct

Question 3

Jimmy vs Crakers

Answer 3

he often compares his own poor adaptations to those of the Crakers

he gets sunburnt, infection and starvation, whereas the Crakers are perfectly suited to survive

Question 4

ultimate suggestion of human extinction

Answer 4

an environmentalist gesture meant to address human arrogance

Question 5

controlling evolution

Answer 5

humans go from controlling evolution, creating new species and inadvertently causing the extinction of existing species, to becoming simply another casualty in the story of evolutionary history

“fooling around in those days: create-an-animal”

Question 6

humans evolution

Answer 6

“our arboreal ancestors, Crake used to say, used to shit on their enemies from above while perched in trees. All planes and rockets are simply elaborations on that primitive instinct”