Subject: Well, if you take the biological definition
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Posted on: 2009-10-29 09:55:00 UTC

of species (from wikipedia): "a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring of both genders" Or as I remember from my biology lesson: different species don't interbreed and produce fertile offspring (mules, and such).

So, unless Gallifreyans are a human race (and not a different species) the Doctor could get it on with Sarah Jane's cousin, they could possibly have biological offspring, but those kids would be sterile.

On the other hand, scifi likes to ignore this definition of species and create multibrids all over the place (remember half-Klingon B'Elanna who had a baby?)

In one of the Doctor novels the Doctor was said to have a human mother. If you take that as canon, then canon further implies that the Doctor can have off-spring and isn't sterile.

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