They would naturally need to find a way to keep said traits ingrained into the descendants, and preventing them from being bred out in the first few generations. It is plausible that this rule for the races would have been intentionally programed into them by Moira, because after all, it was part of the agreement that each Eve get to choose specific traits of her descendants. "Mixed" people do exist, but they are an anomaly. The Seven Races can't breed the same way that traditional human "races" can.Sure, new races would form after thousands of years but directly after the seven Eves start making babies? The only explanation is that the genetic engineering programmed the traits of each race so deeply that race-mixing was just not as easy as it was for traditional human "races." When a black parent and a white parent have a child, the child is usually distinguishably "mixed." But for the descendants of the Eves, a child will *usually* be born just as one race or another just as a blue eyed parent and a green-eyed parent don't make a turquoise-eyed child, the child of a Moiran parent and a Teklan parent will *usually* be either Teklan, Moiran, or some other race in the family's history.
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