content: What if Adam was born in a time with other hominids, but he was the only souled hominid, thus human and not just another animal.  What if you have to be a decedent of Adam to have a soul and there are plenty of non-decedents around.  Humanity's biological common ancestor is 200,000 years old, a little early for Adam, so lets say that human humans happened around the late neolithic around the time agriculture was developed.. by humans, 15,000 bc. Since then actual humans expanded.  In Europe it is estimated that migrations that happened just after agriculture lead to our genes only being composed 10% of the original inhabitants.  Europe is mostly not these per-agriculture homosapiens.  We only have traces of their DNA.  Only a little more than we have Neanderthal.  It's a difference of 10% and 2%. So it goes: Hominid  Homosapien   Human The homospaian level is physiological while the human level is real but less outwardly obvious.  We have a lot of homosapians around and they could even overtake the sub-species human.