How will the samples be collected?
The Project will collect samples from populations all over the world. We expect collecting to involve people who are knowledgeable about both the science behind the Project and the culture of the sampled population. In some populations, those experts will be members of the population who have the knowledge and skills to permit them to evaluate, and explain, the Project. In other cases, they will be outsiders, often anthropologists who have spent an extended period with the people, learning their ways. These knowledgeable people, from inside or outside the population, can act as cultural interpreters, translating the lifeways, goals, and hopes of each for the other to help ensure that the population and the Project understand each other. This is important to guarantee that the population has really understood the sampling process and the purposes for which the Project will use their samples and has truly consented to be involved. It could also help investigators determine what questions
