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How is the children's color decided?

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Numsgil:
I didn't mean child mutating in addition to parent mutating, but child mutating in addition to child getting crossed over.  The parent not mutating I was aware of before.  I think shvarz was the primary proponent of that, actually, so I'm sure there's some good reasoning for it

Peksa:
I looked at mutation details from a brown bot and a red bot and discovered that their last common maternal ancestor was 700 kc ago! After looking at a couple of different bots I found the last common maternal ancestor with different colours to be 300-700 kc in the past. That's only maternal line, but I still think it's quite neat.

DNA's were actually quite different, but the core functions almost the same. Number of eyes was the same as it's used for conspec recognition, but there were some differences in conditions for different genes.

EricL:

--- Quote from: Numsgil ---I didn't mean child mutating in addition to parent mutating, but child mutating in addition to child getting crossed over.  The parent not mutating I was aware of before.  I think shvarz was the primary proponent of that, actually, so I'm sure there's some good reasoning for it
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Ah.  Yes.  The offspring DNA from sexual reproduction is generated by crossing over the two parent's DNA and then mutating the resulting genome.  The process is identical to asexual reproduction with the exception that the offspring's genome is generated via the crossover.   Note that mutation probabilities are also inherited down the maternal line.

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