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Protoplasts Protoplast (), is a biology, biological term coined by Johannes von Hanstein, Hanstein in 1880 to refer to the entire cell, excluding the cell wall. Protoplasts can be generated by stripping the cell wall from plant, bacterium, bacterial, or fu ...

, a technical term for the legendary first people of any creation myth, including a list of first men and women in different traditions **

Adam and Eve Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. ...

, the first people in Abrahamic religions (Adam and Hawa in Islam; Adam and Chava in Judaism) **

Manu (Hinduism) Manu ( sa, मनु) is a term found as various meanings in Hinduism. In early texts, it refers to the archetypal man, or to the first man ( progenitor of humanity). The Sanskrit term for 'human', मानव ( IAST: mānava) means 'of Manu ...

and

Shatarupa Shatarupa ( sa, शतरूपा, Śatarūpā, she of a hundred forms) is the daughter of the creator deity, Brahma. According to ''Brahma Purana'', Shatarupa is regarded as the first woman to be created by Brahma, marrying Manu, the first ...

, the first people in Dharmic religions * The first human or human species, see

human evolution Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of '' Homo sapiens'' as a distinct species of the hominid family, which includes the great apes. This process involved the gradual development o ...

** Homo Erectus, oldest known humanoid species **

Neanderthal Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While the ...

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* '' First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong'', the 2005 official biography of American astronaut Neil Armstrong ** ''First Man'' (film), a 2018 film adaptation of the biography * ''

The First Man ''The First Man'' (french: Le Premier homme) is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel. On January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six, Camus died in a car accident. The incomplete manuscript of ''The First Man'', the autobiographical novel Camus wa ...

'', Albert Camus' unfinished final novel, published in 1994 ** ''The First Man'' (film), the 2011 film adaptation of the novel * The First Men, the initial human settlers of Westeros in George R. R. Martin's '' A Song of Ice and Fire'' series * First Men, name of the extant human species in Olaf Stapledon's ''

Last and First Men ''Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future'' is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from t ...

'' * "First Man" (song), a 2019 song by Camila Cabello from her album ''Romance''

List of countries and islands by first human settlement This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of ''Homo sapiens''). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 ...

Most recent common ancestor In biology and genetic genealogy, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), also known as the last common ancestor (LCA) or concestor, of a set of organisms is the most recent individual from which all the organisms of the set are descended. The ...

of humans **

Mitochondrial Eve In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (also ''mt-Eve, mt-MRCA'') is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans. In other words, she is defined as the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an ...

, the matrilineal most recent common ancestor of all currently living humans **

Y-chromosomal Adam In human genetics, the Y-chromosomal most recent common ancestor (Y-MRCA, informally known as Y-chromosomal Adam) is the patrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) from whom all currently living humans are descended. He is the most recent mal ...

, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor of all currently living men * Primus inter pares, a first among equals *

Princeps ''Princeps'' (plural: ''principes'') is a Latin word meaning "first in time or order; the first, foremost, chief, the most eminent, distinguished, or noble; the first man, first person". As a title, ''princeps'' originated in the Roman Republic w ...

, the title of Roman emperors {{disambiguation

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