Dalek of human origin " Daleks of human origin " was a broad term that encompassed a range of different creatures related to the Dalek s . Three main types of creature fell under the umbrella term : Nature . The ancestral Kaled s were indistinguishable from humans , yet the possibility of mutation into the creatures occupying Dalek casings was apparently integral to their DNA . It is therefore not entirely surprising that humans on occasion displayed the potential to mutate into creatures indistinguishable from mutant Kaleds . The species converted into Daleks , where left as simple nervous system tissue and mutilated flesh , where conditioned with Dalek programming , which they could seldom overcome , usually through intense emotion . They experienced mental illness due to the trauma of the conversion or their state of being as a Dalek , which only made them more dangerous . This could cause true insanity , which was only controlled by Dalek programming . However , the Daleks created from human genetic material by the Dalek Emperor had the xenophobic psychosis characteristic of Daleks who felt they had become " contaminated " by other races . The Ninth Doctor surmised that their inability to accept their fundamentally non - Dalek nature had driven them insane , thus accounting for their religious zealotry ( something not seen in other Daleks ) . ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) Most other Daleks of human origin did not display this psychosis , although as the majority of them were created by Davros , it is probable he was able to eliminate this flaw in the nature of his creations . The " original " Daleks considered the Daleks of human origin not to be " true " Daleks or thought of them as " contaminated " . The first encounter between Daleks and human origin Daleks ( possibly chronologically , not including time travel led events ) was on the planet Necros . The original plan was to recondition Davros ' new Daleks to obey the will of the Supreme Dalek . It is possible , though , that the Daleks did not know of the new Daleks being created from humans . ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " ) History . While in hiding from the Daleks on Necros , Davros created the first of what would later become known as the Imperial Dalek s using the cryogenically frozen bodies of humans interred at Tranquil Repose . This process appeared to involve decapitating the subject and placing the surgically - modified head in a special Dalek casing . Mental conditioning was also obviously involved . All of the formerly - human Imperial Daleks were destroyed , either by the Dalek taskforce sent to extract Davros , or by the bomb detonated by the mercenary Orcini shortly after his departure . ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " ) Davros created Daleks out of mutated humans for his later invasion of Earth . ( AUDIO : " Terror Firma " ) " Mutant Dalek " was the name given by Daleks on board the Dalek Supreme ' s command ship , to those Daleks that were created by Professor Martez on the planet Red Rocket Rising to make the humans more like the Daleks . They were seen as " impure " by the other Daleks , who tried deflecting an asteroid to hit Red Rocket Rising , destroy Martez ' Daleks . While causing massive damage , they miscalculated , and later arrived on Red Rocket Rising to finish the job , when the hybrids survived . The Dalek Supreme and the Daleks prepared to use their own ship to destroy the base with its engines . The ship lost control by an explosion stopping its engines and crashed off - course . The Mutant base was still intact . Dalek Supreme decided to attack the hybrids head on . These Daleks believed they were superior to the command ship ' s Daleks and soon took their stand . A full - scale Dalek battle was about to begin , with both Dalek groups determined to completely wipe out the other , with the humans appearing to fight alongside the ship Daleks to stop the other faction which outnumbered them . After some Martez killed , preventing any more of her Daleks from being produced . The Eighth Doctor , Lucie Miller and Tom Cardwell helped defeated both Dalek groups as they wiped each other out . ( AUDIO : " Blood of the Daleks " ) Daleks trapped in a time loop of their own creation , needing a pilot with an understanding of temporal theory , injected Mariah Learman with mutagenic drugs and exposed her to high levels of radiation before using a time corridor to massively accelerate the process of her mutation . The resulting creature was inserted into a Dalek casing where it served ( briefly ) as the required pilot , although this only compounded the loop rather than allowing them to escape . ( AUDIO : " The Time of the Daleks " ) During the Last Great Time War , the Daleks gathered up humans and placed them in Glass Dalek casings which acted as incubators while the human inside was mutated into a Dalek , after which they would be placed into a standard Dalek casing . These Daleks were viewed as expendable and as cannon fodder due to their " impure " origins . The War Doctor and Cinder found five of these casings in a Dalek laboratory in one of their saucers at a temporary Dalek base in the city of Andor on Moldox . Cinder tore up the cables , allowing the people inside the casings to die in peace . ( PROSE : " Engines of War " ) After the " Alaska " crashed into the Dalek Asylum , the imprisoned Daleks fully converted the ship ' s Junior Entertainment Manager Oswin Oswald into a Dalek , recognising that her intelligence could be useful to them . Oswin apparently retained her human emotion s and personality , and , horrified at what had happened to her , placed her mind in a dream world where she believed she was still human and was safely holed up in the " Alaska " . A year later , Oswin lowered the Asylum ' s forcefield , allowing the Parliament of the Daleks to destroy it , stubbornly stating " I am Oswin Oswald , I fought the Daleks and I AM human " . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) In desperate times , when their numbers needed to be significantly bolstered , groups of Daleks attempted to mass - convert humans into Daleks . ( COMIC : " * Sub Zero " , AUDIO : " Dalek Empire III " , PROSE : " Engines of War " , TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) In the first two cases , this involved the direct transformation of living humans - bodies first , then their minds . In the third case , following the Last Great Time War , the Dalek Emperor rebuilt the Dalek race out of harvested human DNA . This took centuries to achieve as so few human cells met the required genetic criteria . However , a force of half a million Dalek drones was eventually created . This army was obliterated by the Bad Wolf entity as it attacked Earth in 200 , 100 . ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) A disturbing account discovered by the Doctor related the story of how Halldon scientists transplanted primitive humans to the planet Ameron and artificially accelerated their evolution . Creatures identical to the Daleks were the result of the experiment . ( PROSE : " We are the Daleks ! " )