Non-cultural population or lineage

In this evolutionary research account, the population has no population-local advice recipient or chooser. DOCA abstains from advice to it. Variation, reproduction, selection, persistence and lineage remain the direct subject of the relevant scientific practices, not a human programme in another vocabulary.

A researcher who asks whether to change an experiment or conservation intervention is a different case. The researcher or authorized organization is the recipient; the population remains an affected subject. Its evidence, welfare/protection conditions, governance and intervention authority must be qualified by their actual owners.