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Machine Zygote: Causal Biparental Heredity Before Learning in a Germline--Soma Artificial Agent

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

Artificial ontogeny, developmental encodings, robot reproduction, and inherited controllers are established research directions, yet a narrower question remains: can a newborn artificial agent exhibit measurable biparental heredity before learning, and can that dependence be isolated causally rather than inferred only from parent-offspring resemblance? We introduce Machine Zygote, a computational germline-soma architecture designed to test this question. Two parental germlines are independently mutated and recombined into a zygote that parameterizes development of an initially generic eight-mo

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