Questions tagged [humanoid]
For questions about creatures whose appearance is similar to that of humans. The creatures in the question should be different from normal humans in at least one way but can still be seen as mainly human.
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Could an average person properly live out of a 3x3(bodylength) cabin/house?
So I figured that, yes, a tiny person living in a normal size home would need or at least greatly benefit from their own house or hideyhole.
But with that out of the way, I wanted to figure how small ...
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Would a Lilliputian individual need their own personal house if they lived in a normal sized residence?
At first I was going to ask if a miniature person could live out of a 3x3(bodylength) cabin but I thought about a more pressing question: Would a tiny person need their own house if they lived in a ...
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Does the addition of dominant fantasy races change racism in humans?
Context: This takes place in an alternate reality earth; several fantasy races have existed since the Ladinian era of the break up of Pangea; meaning by the time humans evolved into homo-sapiens, they ...
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Can 'prions' help me avoid a genetic engineering temporal paradox?
On the world of Ruquelis, the horrific practise of cannibalism stands on three legs, however, this question is concerned only with Leg #1: Genetics.
In How to have 'easy' sexual morphs in ...
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Does the inclusion of common non-humanoid alien species make rare humanoid alien species more believable?
In a Sci-Fi setting, if there is a vast amount of non-humanoid intelligent life in the universe, like perhaps 20 or 30 species, would this make 4 or 5 species that look similar to each other, or ...
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Would it be possible for someone to have his prosthetics that were made from steampunk materials back in the 1930s?
Edit #1: As I was asked to define the steampunk materials, I should’ve clarify that by this term, I mean materials that consist of metallic elements in general, such as gold, might as well have bronze,...
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"Hard" SF reaction to "Soft" SF Aliens
When we consider what alien life might look like, it seems more likely that life would be, well, very alien. There is no reason to expect bipedal, human-shaped and human-sized creatures. Or to expect ...
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Would Fishmen Wear Corsets? [closed]
Corsets are a useful piece of clothing. They have a variety of uses, including shaping the body
This functionality can clearly work in mammals and other cases where the spine is in the back, however I ...
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Would an asexually reproducing Humanoid species have any form of romance or sexual pleasure?
So I have a setting where the main sapient species is a very closely Humanoid race. In this setting, Humans, along with many other species across a number of dimensions, are all descended from an ...
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How would vision be affected by eyesockets placed diagonally from each other?
Some owls have ears placed with one higher, and the other lower. If an (otherwise normal) human were to have that sort of thing, only with their eyes sockets (and by extent, eyeballs). For the sake of ...
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Could sophonts that evolved in colder climates keep cool in the tropics with simple technology? [closed]
On an Earth-like planet, we have a functionally human-like creature which evolved to dwell comfortably in its world's boreal forests. As humans have done, it will likely have a desire to explore its ...
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Is it biologically feasible for a humanoid species to have both types of germ cells?
I thought up a race of humanoids called Daemons for a Homestuck-inspired video game/webcomic. I won’t go into a ton of detail about them, though if I wanted to, I could fill up nine whole questions. ...
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Would Frogs Wear Corsets?
Corsets are undergarments with a variety of usages, including supporting large dress and such. While this is functional for birds and lizards, I feel there is another type of being to consider, that ...
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Are humanoid hind legs compatible with reptilian tails?
Unlike mammals, reptiles lack gluteal muscles and instead have enlarged caudofemoralis muscles to extend the hindlegs. The humanoid legs, on the other hand, rely on the mammalian gluteals in order to ...
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How can advanced aliens seed life in a way that will likely grow to the same humanoid form
Let's say you have some advanced aliens seeding life on multiple earth like worlds. They want sapient roughly humanoid creatures to evolve from this starting seed. However, they are not dropping ...
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Is is possible for a humanoid to have a quasi-realistic explanation for having a limited form of super strength and agility? [closed]
In terms of strength I am thinking of launching people over five feet with a single blow or just by throwing them
In terms of agility I am picturing the average action hero
Baring the explanations ...
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Can a canine/human hybrid balance without a tail?
I am writing a book about a humanoid wolf (named Wolf. See what I did there?). Wolf lost most of his tail in an accident when he was younger. He hides the stump under his jacket to avoid being ...
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Why would dyadic cisgender women with facial hair be considered attractive? [closed]
In my world, there is a revolution in the world of fashion: women, men, non-binary people, and genderfluid people all must have facial hair if they want to be among the elite models. To be exact, men ...
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Half man half bicycle
The bicyclops are half man half bicycle - a bit like a centaur.
EDIT *** Note that someone suggests the title be changed to "Half person half bicycle". However, in my story, the females have ...
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Could clawed fingers (without fingertips) work as well as nailed fingers?
The hand and arm are exactly human from the shoulder to the intermediate phalanges. The distal phalanges are conical, as in clawed animals, and is entirely surrounded by a keratinous claw. There is no ...
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Dragon people with colorful horns
Dragonfolk have skin that looks like rock, but sometimes, some of them turn colorful with very bright horns for the same reason salmon turn from grey to red, while others are always bright and colored....
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What sort of evolutionary possibilities are plausible for a human-like species orbiting a red dwarf star?
I'm working on a story which is sci-fi so soft you could spread it on a cracker, but I'd like something semi plausible. I'm very likely overthinking things to an extreme, but I'd like someone with ...
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How plausible is the idea of aquatic humans/humanoids having respiration like a frog instead of things like gills?
I was reading about frogs, which led me to think: what if, instead of gills, aquatic humanoids had a respiration system like frogs (absorbing the oxygen from the water through their skin)?
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Functioning humanoid society with negligible gravity
In a fictional world, a humanoid species settles upon a foreign planet and intends to build a colony on this planet with an eventual goal of full habitation. They originally chose this planet for ...
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Anatomic design of a 10m tall humanoid that procreates by "splitting"
I'm currently trying to work out how a newly discovered species would work anatomically. It is extremely tall (10 to 15 meters) and has humanoid shape (head with eyes, arms, legs), but it is not a ...
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How to stop Jimmy’s (self-conscious) limbs from rebelling?
So Jimmy (the collective name for his brains) has this one-in-a-handwavium-amount blessing/curse. Instead of one central brain, his head, each arm, each leg, and his torso have independently ...
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If human babies are born underdeveloped, how long would pregnancy need to be in order to be considered fully developed? [closed]
In my world there is a certain sapient species with height around 3 meters, whose bones are more durable than humans, meaning they can afford wider pelvis than most human women
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How would a secretive vestigial population grow alongside humans, given that they live different lifestyles? [closed]
This is a heavily revised version of a post I made earlier, along with some edits from my friend Enthalpy.
This new post is strictly about population growth, and contains no extant references to third ...
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Why would a creature both have carnivore teeth and side-facing eyes?
So, after a long unplanned hiatus, I have started designing alien creatures again, and one image that eve before that hiatus I could not get out of my head is that of a creature which has both the ...
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Anatomically Correct Cherub [closed]
The cherub is a strange sort of angel with a strange sort of form. They are overall humanoid, with 2 pairs of wings. These wings also bear hands on the underside. Furthermore, they have 4 heads, each ...
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Can these fanciful lizardfolk shoulders properly fit together?
One unique way of making a reptilian humanoid is a rather fanciful joint in which human-like shoulders, including the extension of the shoulderblade, are seemingly stapled to the sides of the ventral ...
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How can we maximize the speed of a bipedal digitigrade humanoid?
How fast can a digitigrade bipedal ape possibly run?
I've raked through any question I could find on here talking about speedy bipeds or digitigrade bipeds (that aren't robotic/synthetic), but none ...
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How does my primitive species make baby carriers?
The Maruvans (plant/flowerlike species) are a very primitive and use Stone Age level tools. They can make clothes out of tree bark but I’m trying to figure out how they would make a baby carrier at ...
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Could Lizardfolk Wear Corsets? [duplicate]
Corsets are a useful piece of clothing. While they can be used to shape the body, they can also serve the purpose of supporting other clothing
While the shaping functionality is not useful to avians, ...
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A species of humanoids can see perfectly well under both sunlight and starlight. What's their eye morphology like?
Assume a species of humanoids that can see under both starlight (no sun, no moon, clear skies) and sunlight as well as humans during the day. Let's assume the light levels are roughly the same as here ...
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Would tall arboreal humanoids make good swimmers?
These are tall, sapient great apes that primarily live in trees, but come down for occasional food or things that catch their interest on the ground. By tall, I mean 6-7 feet on average, but because ...
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How do Eagle-Men hunt?
The eagle-men are a race of aquiline creatures found in the wilderness. They are flightless and wingless creatures about 4ft in height, with legs like an eagle, a body partway between humanoid and ...
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How Would Humanoids Form Their Own Gems?
Sequinoans. This strange race of Amazonians has many unusual traits, but the foremost our scholars are concerned with are their gems. You see, Sequinoans somehow form gems naturally, perfectly smooth ...
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How would these nocturnal humanoids evolve?
I've designed a race of humanoids for a standalone worldbuilding project, but I'm beginning to wonder how they could have evolved. They are very similar to humans, but differ in the following key ways:...
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What environmental conditions would cause large humans to evolve?
For most of our evolutionary history, we did indeed live in Africa - but not just the eastern savannahs, as previously thought: our biological ancestors were distributed everywhere from Morocco to the ...
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Is a keratin structure that gives milk a type of horn?
One of my species called the Pinnokiins has a nose-like horn on their face. This horn also works as their equivalent of nipples. There is a milk gland connected to it, at least during the time when ...
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Hair that Ages from White to Black
Generally, human hair turns white as we age. However, one of the races in my world does this backwards; they are born white-haired, and when they reach 60 years of age it starts to gradually grow ...
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Would Birds Wear Corsets?
Corsets are a type of clothing which are typically worn to support and shape the waist and torso. While this makes sense for soft-bellied mammals, the benefits to other classes are hard to figure
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How could my hybrids from species of the same genus with radically different appearance have more fertility issues but still be mostly fertile?
I want to know if my interspecific interbreeding is realistic or a total fiction.
Most animal hybrids are sterile (mostly the heterogametic sex according to Haldane's rule). Some famous examples ...
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Could slow shelled humanoids compete with other species?
The slolis are a species of small shelled humanoids, resembling crabs. Like several shelled animals, such as snails and tortoises, they are very slow, relying instead on their hard shell. They are ...
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How can humans evolve a single burning hand? [closed]
The environment is a temperate enclosed valley on earth (or is like Earth) that has caused the humans trapped in it to evolve different. Their size is normal. They gave evolved a gel that oozes on the ...
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Could these humanoids properly clothe themselves?
The humanoids are quite uniquely shaped: They have a single leg in the middle of their pelvis, which is flexible like a snake or tentacle. They are also facultative unipeds; they can move either on ...
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Anatomical Plausibility of Snake-Footed People [closed]
The snake-footed people are, as the name implies, people with serpentine feet. Specifically, they have the muscles and bones of the lower part of a snake replacing their feet and part of their legs
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Anatomically Correct Sciapod
The sciapod is a small humanoid creature, which is distinguished by a single large leg. This leg would be like a single leg, without duplicate structures. It would also be symmetrical. They move by ...
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Would lack of sexual dimorphism negatively impact a brutish humanoid species
In the world I am making I am wanting to portray the orcs as a race of testosterone filled and fairy hating frat bros, where the only difference between a man and a woman is the thing between their ...
