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Western scientists call her Eve because of our culture’s Judeo-Christian (or Abrahamic?) roots. We could have also called her “Ask” if we were Norse mythology i

Western scientists call her Eve because of our culture’s Judeo-Christian (or Abrahamic?) roots. We could have also called her “Ask” if we were Norse mythology inclined. But I’m just trying to sound intelligent here while I should be working on something boring, I’m not even sure if OP was serious :)

richardfontana 5y ago
"Ask" is the first male human in Norse mythology, and Embla the first female human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_and_Embla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_and_Embla
adolph 5y ago
My first thought was to write that “Conceptually Mitocondrial Eve stood at the eve of humanity.” But that isn’t quite right. MEve was the earliest human whose genetic progeny wasn’t wiped out at some later point. Not the first person, the chicken that came before an egg but a person who won a genetic lottery unknown to them. Explainer: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-mitochondrial-eve-not-first-female-species-180959593/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-mitochondri...