   Of course, to conduct an ensemble test, important methodological difficulties must be confronted, including how to choose populations and species to analyze, and how many cases are necessary to provide an adequate test. The name “Adaptationism Project” is an acknowledgement of a parallel to the “Human Genome Project”; both are carried out by a consortium of investigators and require advance organization of the process by which knowledge is gathered (instead of just occurring willy-nilly). This is an ambitious project but one that is achievable, cf., the “Genome 10K” project, which is also an effort to create an unprecedented data ensemble (Genome 10K 2009).