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Question: What did Dr. Moreau hope to accomplish by turning all of the animals into humans?

Answer: Science. More specifically, to prove that it could be done.

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Answer: I don't know which movie version you're referring to, but in the 1977 film, he stated by controlling and manipulating the genetic code, he could remove all the defects from humans. No more mental or physical handicaps. No inherent genes passed from generation to generation. No dwarfism, blind or deafness.

Thank you. And I was referring to this version.

Question: When Montgomery is giving injections to the beast people, he tells Douglas that the injections prevent them from retrogressing. What would they have retrogressed into?

Answer: The animals they had been before receiving Dr. Moreau's treatments.

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