Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130124024307/@comment-26975268-20130124030909

I agree entirely. Though I wouldn't be surprised if, if we look hard enough, we can find at least one reference to "near-humans" in a novel or comic. Now I may be wrong (I usually am), but as I understand it, at the moment, there's a distinction between the two, being that humanoid is anything that has our basic body shape. In the words of the article, "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 head with a brain located in it." Whereas near-humans, as it stands, seems to mean species that are identical or practically identical to humans internally and mostly indistinguishable. Obviously, this can be changed. I just felt it needed to be mentioned that near-humans are a subcategory of humanoids. I still agree that having "near-humans" is useless and not in-universe, though I think there should be a distinction between what defines, for example, the Slitheen (humanoids but not near-humans) and Futurekind.