The traits chosen for your race during character creation are applied to the initial population you start the game with, but every time I build a new pop it doesn't have any of them, and shows up as a new race in the contact screen.

This leads to several problems. You can't take the adaptable trait to compensate for the lact of ability to colonize any environment (which basic robots have but not the android race). You can't have your androids be better than normal at a favored brand of science, or mining, or warfare. And you can't change your leaders' lifespan to anything between baseline and totally immortal.

Was this intentional, or is it a bug? If bug, is it only affecting me for some reason or have others seen it?