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Morphic Field

Morphic fields are form-shaping fields that organize all kinds of things that have forms, patterns, structures, or self-organizing properties. Fields are patterns of space-time and morphic fields, like other fields, are structures in space and time. The substance of morphic fields is space; modifications of space or of the vacuum. They have their own kind of ontological status, the same kind of status as electromagnetic and gravitational fields. Like the other fields, the morphic fields are localized. They're in and around the system they organize. However, morphic fields resonate with each other across space and time. One field influences another field through space and time. This process of resonating is called morphic resonance.

It is because of the Gallifreyan biological morphic field that 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. Its morphic resonance spread across the cosmos, 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 resonance 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.