Who was the first person ever to live on earth?
Adam: means “man” Origin: < Heb ādhām lit., man] According to the Bible, Adam was the first human being on Earth and the father of all humanity. In the book of Genesis (1:26), Adam is created by God on the sixth day of creation, in God's own image, and given dominion over all the animals of the world. Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Genesis 1:26 ¶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
With so many answers, it’s unlikely mine will ever be read, but I’ll attempt seriousness anyway: the answer is dependent on the definition of “person”, and unfortunately the term is not well defined scientifically. During the course of human evolution, human intellectual capacity increased gradually over many tens of thousands of years, at the very least. Given some arbitrary IQ cutoff for “person-hood” it is logically necessary that one particular individual attained it first, but this person would not have been notably more intelligent that his or her contemporaries, and the distinction is meaningless in practical terms. One may as well ask on what day a man losing his hair becomes “bald” or an aging person becomes “old” – it is a process, not an event.
