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[[Humanoid]] is a sophontigraphic term indicating that a [[sophont]] possesses a body plan with the same basic [[morphology]] of baseline members of [[Humaniti]].
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[[Humanoid]] is a ''body plan'', a basic description of the body structure of a single creature. Because of the wide spread of [[Humaniti]] the human body plan has become a standard.
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Please see the following [[AAB]] articles for more information:
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* [[Human]]
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** [[Humanoid]]
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** [[Non-humanoid]]
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** [[Semi-humanoid]]
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* [[Humaniti]]
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** [[Major Human Race]]
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** [[Minor Human Race]]
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* Major Race
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** [[Major Human Race]]
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** [[Major Non-Human Race]]
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* [[Minor race]]
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** [[Minor Human Race]]
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** [[Minor Non-Human Race]]
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* [[Variant Race]]
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** [[Variant Human Race]] AKA [[Human chimera]]
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** [[Variant Non-Human Race]]
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** [[Genetic Engineering]] AKA [[Geneering]]
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A humanoid body plan consists of an solid, unsegmented abdomen with two legs and two arms ending with hands as manipulators, and a head. The head contains both brain and the main senses. The overall layout is bilaterally symmetric, meaning a left and right side of the body. Finally the overall body has an upright structure, with the head at the highest point atop an upright abdomen.  
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== Description (Specifications) ==
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A humanoid body plan means possession of an abdomen, torso, head, two arms with hands, and two legs with feet.
  
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== Description  ==
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=== Human Baseline Characteristics ===
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A ''body plan'' is a set of morphological features common to many members of a phylum of [[creature]]s used by [[biologist]]s, [[exobiologist]]s, and [[sophontologist]]s among others. The vertebrate body plan is one of many: invertebrates consist of many phyla. This term, usually applied to [[creature]]s, envisages a "blueprint" encompassing aspects such as [[symmetry]], [[segmentation]], and limb disposition. Evolutionary developmental biology seeks to explain the origins of diverse body plans.
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No information yet available.
  
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The term is relevant to body-form only and has little use in science. There is no genetic relatedness that can be implied from similar form. e.g. A slug (non-Humanoid) is more closely related to a [[Human]] ([[Humanoid]] by definition) than a [[Vegan]] ([[Humanoid]]) is. [[Human]]s and [[Vegan]]s arose from entirely different ecologies.
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== History & Background (Dossier) ==
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The terms for sophont body plans are widely disputed in the [[sophontology]] community.
  
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The term ''confluence'' is a measure of closely related the body plan of two unrelated species are. Confluence is always in relation to selected baseline, so ''human confluence'' is how closely the body form resembles a human's, or how Humanoid the body plan is.  
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=== Human Anatomy, Physiology & Morphology ===
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No information yet available.  
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* Convergent Evolution
  
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=== Related terms ===
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=== Non-Human Morphology & Evolution ===
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; Semi-humanoid
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No information yet available.
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: This is a creatures with most of the features of a humanoid body structure, but with a few obvious and external changes. Examples would include
 
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:* [[Sydite]], with 4 arms instead of two. 
 
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:* [[Vegan]], who have tentacles at the end of their arms, rather than hands.
 
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; Non-Humanoid
 
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: A creature with few, if any, of the humanoid body features. This is a broad category indicative of the Humaniti-centric view of the term.
 
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== See also ==
 
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{{:Referral-Tree-Sophont}}
 
  
 
== References & Contributors (Sources) ==
 
== References & Contributors (Sources) ==
 
{{Intermediate}}
 
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|S1= [[T5 Core Rules]]
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|S1= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]
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|S3= Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]  
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{{LE|Anatomy|Biology|Xenobiology|Sophontology}}
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{{LEN|Sophontology}}

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