Howling:Humans, Near-Humans, Humanoids...?!?

OKAY!!! This is really bugging me and I can't stop thinking about it because I don't like it. Humans come from Earth. Why is the wording for all other humanoids "near-human"? I know that it is simply because it's from our perspective, but instead of Gallifreyans being near-human why aren't humans near-Gallifreyan? I can understand humanoids evolving on numerous planets, but the human factor is so weird!!! What I've seen that's been recently(I mean like a couple months or maybe less) added to the Human article is that humans and near-humans can be called humans, and that humans specifically from Earth should be called Earthons. I find that much more sutible. If that's the case, then the Kaleds and Thals are human. In the Zagreus (audio story) Rassilon is to have seeded planets with molecules to evolve humanoids similar to Gallifreyans. That means that Humans, Kaleds, Thals, Trakenites and the others are in reality near-Gallifreyan! Species names also develop from the planets too, because humans come from Earth whereas Urbankans come from Urbanka and the Daleks come from Skaro when they could really be called Skarosians. Also, as Humans evolved on both Earth and Mondas it is possible the human race evolved on many planets. In The Robots of Death, the Doctor states that if the robots have gone mad, then "this could mean the end of "this civilization"." The miners appear human but it is never stated. Also, in the Snakedance explanation of the Mara, written by a Manussan from Manussa, he writes "here in the depths of the human heart, here is the Mara." So either the Manussans are really humans and Manussa is an Earth colony in the future, or they are seperate from Humans. Either way, I have written all that's on my mind and I would really appreciate some feedback because with things like this and the genesis of the Cybermen and similar things, if I can't understand it than I can't enjoy it in Doctor Who. Maybe some of you might feel the same way, but please give any ideas you may have, even the slightest.-- User:Steed 20 December, 2009 23:29


 * Try not to make huge blocks of texts. It makes it very hard to read.
 * Now, let's see if I can address all the points.
 * They never refer to Human-like species as Near-Humans in any Doctor Who work. I just choose that term for convenience when I originally made the category. If you have a better term...?
 * The show is based on the point-of-view of Humans and the Wiki is based on the point-of-view of Humans. That's why the show seems to only focus on things when it matters to Humans and why information on the website has a human perspective. Therefore, species are named from the Human perspective.
 * And I think Human should be used for Earthly Homo sapiens. Other species should naturally develop their own name for their species; taking ours just seems uncreative. Besides, Earthon is too vague; it could be used to describe anything from Earth.
 * Again, Near-Gallifreyan is the same as a Near-Human. And ultimate biological origin isn't really important for picking the name. Life on Earth was caused by the Jagaroth, but it doesn't mean Humans are Near-Jagaroth.
 * Mondas was physically identical to Earth and in the same orbit to Earth. It's kind of obvious that it's not a natural occurrence.
 * I not sure what you're getting at with the Robots of Death. Killer robots destroy a civilization, and its either a Human one or a alien one.
 * There lots of reasons for that. The TARDIS translated the word to "human heart" for convenience, the TARDIS translated the word to "human heart" because it's broken, the Doctor translated it to "human heart" because he likes Humans, it was translated to "human heart" because it sounds better, it was translated to "human heart" because it doesn't matter, it was translated to "human heart" because it's translated to English and that the gist of the phrase, it means human in the "intelligent people instead of beast" sense, instead of the "Homo sapiens" sense, etcetera, etcetera.
 * And in general response, it's not like Doctor Who has really good science anyways. Ridiculous convergent evolution of human-like species? No less questionable than most of the science. Just say to yourself "It's just a show, I really should relax". Azes13 05:26, December 21, 2009 (UTC)