Adam. Adam is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible and in the creation story of the Quran.
   According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, he was the first man. In both Genesis and Quran, Adam and his wife were expelled from a Garden of Eden for eating the fruit of a tree forbidden by Yahweh or Allah, though various names are different, as is the sequence of events, the consequences of this disobedience, and Adam's later biography.
   Various forms of creationism and biblical literalism consider Adam to be a historical person. Scientific evidence does not support the idea that the entire human population descends from a single man.
   Based on a meta-analysis of reported values in the literature for many species, Traill et al. reported concerning vertebrates a cross-species frequency distribution of minimum viable population with a median of 4169 individuals. The word adam is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as a human and in a collective sense as mankind.
   Biblical Adam is created from adamah, and makes considerable play of the bond between them, for Adam is estranged from the earth through his disobedience. The majority view among scholars is that the book of Genesis dates from the Persian period, but the absence from the rest of the Hebrew Bible of all the other characters and incidents mentioned in chapters 1-11 of Genesis, has led a sizable mi
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