other than the Adam Eve myth - what scientific theories are there for evoluion of man / woman ?

Question

Who was born first - man or woman? how?

Answer 1

Even if you could have some perfect technical way to follow individual ancestry and could tell perfectly who would become the ancestor of all modern people and who would not, the numbers would never get below the thousands of men and women, and likely not even a single tribe, or tribal group.

If you were capable of looking at a list of your ancestors of a single generation thirty generations ago you would have a list 1,073,741,824 long, much longer than the number of people who existed at that time. Obviously a single person might appear thousands of times on that list, others only a few.

Similarly each of those ancestors might have a list of greater numbers of descendants (since you have only two parents, but they might have several kids), and you would appear as many times on their list as they appeared on yours, but a billion "cousins" would not be impossible.

That thirtieth generation would mostly be about 600 years ago if all children were born to parents at 20yr old. Since most parents were younger than that, the thirtieth generation might be much more recent.

At 600 years ago your ancestors would have been pretty much everybody in that area at that time, and any odd traveler, at that generation or earlier, would add a whole nother trunk of folk, you might never think possible, and of course those folk had the odd traveler as well.

That arithmetic is the same for any person at any time, so 20,000 years ago, over more than a thousand generations ago, the "Odd Traveler" of even a few miles would eventually link every human population and individuals alive at the time to you, and to every other person alive today.

Answer 2

It's all in "The Urantia Book", however Adam and Eve existed but were not the 1st man & woman on Earth ( "Urantia" ).
I'm almost sure the complete "Urantia Book" is accessible online. Find the "Adam and Eve" story for their plight. Look for "The first 2 humans" or something to that effect in the [Urantia] book.

This is all I could find, in a hurry, at http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/uran.html

In Part III, the 63 papers describe the history of Urantia. Around 1,000,000,000 years ago, Urantia reached its present size. This part describes the history of the planet, its geologic development, the establishment of life, the evolution and history of man, evolving civilizations, human institutions and governments. It also discusses the Trinity concept, the evolution of religion, the indwelling spirit of God, personality survival, and the bestowals of Christ Michael.

Answer 3

Cosidering that all fertilised eggs start off as female, then half become male if the Y chromosome is present, then I would hazard an educated guess that males are an evolutionary adaptation - a specialisation from an hermaphrodite species perhaps half a billion years ago.

Therefore females preceded males, although by the time humans came along, the two-gender system was obviously well established.

Answer 4

Apes got less and less hairy with generations and they got more and more intelligent. A man or woman didn't just show up, eveolution takes many generations and hundreds of thousands of years. From one generation to the next, here are small minute changes that are not noticeable, but as the number of generations increase and each generation has its own incremental change, the amount of change add up and you get very noticeable reults after hundreds ofthousand of years.

Answer 5

The Adam and Eve story is symbolic for others.
Another theory was made by Charles Darwin: Darwinism

Answer 6

Humans evolved from a common ancestor millions of years ago. Much of early human evolution occurred in Africa. There is scientific evidence (i.e. the fossil record and artifacts) that proves this. Early hominids were bipedal and had ape-like features. These early humans gave rise to other species, who eventually migrated to Asia and Europe.

Answer 7

I recently read an article on yahoo that state researches now think some life (via small bacteria or microscopic living organisms) was brought to earth by cosmic collision, large asteroid, or meteor, landing on the earth.

In my opinion, I think turkeys came way before men or woman

Answer 8

If Adam and Eve were first man/woman, we would all be inbreed.

Answer 9

Hilarious!

Answer 10

By simply stating that Adam and Eve are a myth, and not even being able to correctly spell evolution, you are demonstrating your level of intelligence and your intolerance for the views of others.