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Morphic fields and the Humanoid Form

Morphic fields are an obscure offshoot of biology. All living beings have a field associated with them which defines their entire biology. The morphic fields provide a force that guides the development of an organism as it grows, making it take on a form similar to that of others in its species. DNA is not the source of structure itself, but rather a receiver that translates instructions in the field into physical form. The morphic fields are reinforced by every successive generation. That is why there are so many humanoid species in the universe. Gallifreyans were the first sentient organic lifeforms to evolve in this universe, and thus created a morphic field of their external physical form. That morphic field resonated across the universe, making it more probable that through parallel evolution the next sentient race to evolve would be humanoid, and that made it much more likely that the next race would be humanoid, and so on. Many humanoid species (e.g. Humans) are outwardly indistinguishable from Gallifreyans. The reason they are so astonishingly similar to the Gallifreyan race is because the Gallifreyan form represents the basic way that evolution most likely takes for the dominant mammalian race on an average Gallifrey-like planet under the influence of the Gallifreyan morphic field and the humanoid races similar but not identical to Gallifreyans developed under very specific and usually unique environmental conditions. The majority of the non-humanoid sentient races developed in environments where two legs, two arms and a head would have been a positive handicap.