Humanoid
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Humanoid, or sometimes hominoid, (AUDIO: Sting of the Sasquatch [+]Loading...["Sting of the Sasquatch (audio story)"]) was a taxonomic term that broadly described such species as the Time Lords or Raxacoricofallapatorians. A humanoid species was thought of as one which was bilaterally symmetrical, bipedal, and possessed of a naturally upright posture. Such species also typically had two arms, two legs, one thorax, a neck, and a head with a brain located in it. Humanoids of this description were very common in the universe. (PROSE: Galaxy Four [+]Loading...["Galaxy Four (novelisation)"]) The Tenth Doctor described "your basic humanoid" as simply having a "few limbs and a face." (TV: Silence in the Library [+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"])
Humanoid was related to human-ish, but did not automatically carry with it that word's implication of insult. (PROSE: Down [+]Loading...["Down (novel)"])
The "first humanoids", as the Grey Man called them, were the first species of humanoids to evolve in the universe. They existed on a world thirty thousand million light-years from Earth, and were observed by the Grey Man's people. As he later discovered, his people introduced the concept of duality to the first humanoids and caused them to be divided. As a result, they destroyed themselves in bacteriological warfare. (PROSE: Falls the Shadow [+]Loading...["Falls the Shadow (novel)"])
The Eremites prized hominid corpses in their rituals because, when flayed, the skin would become faintly luminous. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])
The Tenth Doctor, himself Gallifreyan, disclosed to his human companions that he had met Krillitanes who "looked just like us except they had really long necks". The Krillitanes assumed a "bat form" after the invasion of Bessan, in which they acquired the wings of the Bessan people. Ten generations later, Brother Lassar was distinguished from his bat form brothers in that his body was "shaped human", which he explained as a "personal favourite". (TV: School Reunion [+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])
Humanoid self-identification[[edit] | [edit source]]
Valethske found it difficult to compare themselves with other humanoids, particularly humans, whom the majority of Valethske regarded as little more than food animals worthy of no more respect than the cattle raised on their home planet. (PROSE: Superior Beings [+]Loading...["Superior Beings (novel)"])
Tragan, a Naglon, regarded himself as "barely humanoid", since he hardly resembled a human. (AUDIO: The Paradise of Death [+]Loading...["The Paradise of Death (audio story)"])
Opinions of non-humanoids[[edit] | [edit source]]
Non-humanoids sometimes opined about humanoids. Daleks thought of taxonomic humanoids as excellent source of concentrated protein (TV: Revelation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"]) and as useful work machines with little other value. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)"]) The Mantasphid Queen once called them "fleshy bipeds." (TV: The Infinite Quest [+]Loading...["The Infinite Quest (TV story)"]) And at least one Rill believed that the humanoid form was poorly adapted and led to a shorter lifespan. (PROSE: Galaxy Four [+]Loading...["Galaxy Four (novelisation)"])
Theories as to the ubiquity of humanoids[[edit] | [edit source]]
One of the more popular theories about why there were so many humanoid species was that the evolution of Gallifreyans relatively early in the history of the universe caused a morphic field for the humanoid form that resonated across the universe and influenced the development of later species in a similar direction. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"]) Indeed, when Christina de Souza observed that the Tenth Doctor "look[ed] human", he responded that she "look[ed] Time Lord". (TV: Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (TV story)"])
Another implied that Rassilon seeded the early planets with biogenic molecules that would develop into humanoids, specifically ones which resembled Time Lords. (AUDIO: Zagreus [+]Loading...["Zagreus (audio story)"])
Historians who studied the Dalek race developed a theory that the Daleks' humanoid forebears evolved on the planet Ameron from prehistoric Earth hominids who had been transported there by the Halldons. (PROSE: We are the Daleks! [+]Loading...["We are the Daleks! (short story)"], Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"]) Bernice Summerfield pondered if the Thals might have been descended from DNA that the SSSSSSS had sent through their crude wormholes to plant their "seed of Aryan purity" throughout history. (PROSE: Down [+]Loading...["Down (novel)"])
