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Kyon: Do I have to live in this gray world all alone with her?This is a plot where the remainders of a group, especially an entire race, must be protected from extinction. Occasionally, the final two actually do perish, but not before producing offspring who repopulate the species. This, of course, ignores real population genetics, where a certain minimum number of genetically divergent (i.e. unrelated) individuals are needed in a gene pool to maintain a healthy genetic diversity over the generations. For humans it is an estimated 497 individuals (no joke) although 1,000+ is to be preferred. The general rule of thumb is the "50/500" guideline — that a population founded by 50 genetically diverse humans in isolation would last about 2,000 years before inbreeding did them in, while 500 or more stand a chance of lasting indefinitely so long as all of them reproduce and no major disasters wipe out a significant part of the gene pool during that time (although as with everything else involving genetics, this is a gross oversimplification and varies greatly with the conditions encountered). You usually won't find this in direct siblings. More casually, this results in the unspoken implication that said newly propagated species does not have a problem with incest. This rarely comes up. In particularly anvilicious scenarios, the two survivors who rebirth their species will actually be named "Adam" and "Eve", or some fairly obvious variations on those names. This is sometimes called a Shaggy God Story. Literary note: the "Adam and Eve" plot is mentioned (in a bad way) in many articles and books on writing science fiction stories. Apparently it was, for many years, one the most over-used twist endings in the badly written stories that make up the editors' mountainous "slush pile" of wasted efforts - in fact, many editors would reject stories with this twist on sight. Usually found coupled with a New Eden; if some manner of vehicle or protective capsule is employed, this becomes an Ark or a City in a Bottle. Often the end result of Earth All Along. May overlap with Ancient Astronauts and/or lead to Advanced Ancient Humans. Related to Last of His Kind. Sister trope of Only You Can Repopulate My Race. Not to be confused with Coitus Ensues. See also Babies Ever After.
Itsuki: Adam and Eve. If you reproduce enough, it'll work out?
Kyon: I'll smack you.
Itsuki: Adam and Eve. If you reproduce enough, it'll work out?
Kyon: I'll smack you.
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Anime and Manga
- In Eureka Seven movie ending, Renton and Eureka became that very symbolic couple after Earth was flooded. Eureka was reborn relying on Renton's survival, memories and dreams, in a way similar to Eve being born from Adam's ribs.
- In Megazone 23 Part I, the character Eve is introduced as a mysterious idol and Megazone is revealed to be a City in a Bottle. In Part 2, Eve explains that she has taken it upon herself to hand-pick a worthy remnant who will survive after the superweapon A.D.A.M. destroys the Megazone, and hopefully make it safely by ark to the regenerated Earth where they can begin repopulating it.
- Subverted in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: After Haruhi starts splitting off another dimension containing (at the moment) only Kyon and herself, Itsuki temporarily appears from the original world and jokes that Kyon and Haruhi could be the new Adam and Eve and populate the world. Kyon is not amused. Itsuki then theorizes that that won't truly be necessary, and that this new world will become more and more populated as Haruhi continues subconsciously creating it.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: At the conclusion of the series Shinji and Asuka are left as the only two surviving humans on an utterly transformed and devastated Earth.
- Subverted, as it's said during the Instrumentality that the rest of the humans may join Shinji and Asuka in the new world if they wish it in their hearts. We just never see that happen.
- Gall Force: The Gall Force: Eternal Story OVA focuses around a crew of a space ship consisting of a One-Gender Race named the Solonoids who are racing to claim a new homeworld and the Paranoids, an enemy alien race. One character is absorbed into an alien gelatinous mass and she ends up becoming pregnant via a Face Full Of Alien Wingwong. The cast surgically remove it, thinking it's an infection, and it rapidly grows into an Opposite-Sex Clone. He and one girl end up being the last two survivors by the end, and go on to produce the entire human race.
- Subverted in the manga Eden: It's an Endless World!, where, After the End, two teenagers, Ennoia and Hana, think they're the last people alive. They've both been thinking about the inevitable a lot. After a heartfelt discussion on the matter, they decide to stay in "our Eden", but Ennoia decides that they "don't have to live our lives according to mythology. And that means when we have kids, we don't have to name them 'Cain' or 'Abel', either." As it turns out, they aren't the last people alive, but they might as well be; Most of the remaining population, which is already ridiculously minuscule, has The Virus.
- This makes up roughly the first third of the sixth volume of Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix manga, Nostalgia. And while the genetic difficulties are addressed, eventually the problem is resolved when the race of aliens capable of taking on any form send a representative on the behalf of the Phoenix. This crossbreeding creates a new species of half human, half moopie.
- Seen in the last page of the Narutaru manga, with Shiina's daughter and Kuri's son, playing on the beach where the series started. It's unclear as to whether their mothers are still alive.
- In the manga Beautiful People by Mitsukazu Mihara, only two people seem to have survived in Japan (and maybe the world) because they accidentally trapped themselves in a bunker for one week while civilization ended. The bomb just killed living beings on the outside without damaging other objects, so they can loot canned food and survive easily for a while. Hopes for them to re-populate the world are... low, as one is a gay man and the other is a lesbian woman... oops.
- Completely averted in Dragon Ball where in Online, you find out that the last survivors of the Saiyajin race, Vegeta and Goku, were unable to rebuild the Saiyajin life through interbreeding with humans. Saiyajin are now extinct.
- Played straight, though, in that somehow Fat Buu was able to produce an entire race of beings from just himself. And seeing as he was a creature created out of pure magic in the first place, that doesn't seem very unlikely. He probably just split into multiple pieces and let them become separate beings instead of reforming. Specifically, he read one of Mr. Satan's adult books, and through it wanted to experience love. So he ended up creating his wife (the aptly named Booby), and then hit her with a love beam, thus causing her to be impregnated with a child. And apparently over the span of a few centuries, this occurred so much it lead to the creation of an entire race. Majins must have a lot of free time on their hands.
- Inverted in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, where Robotnik wants to cause the extinction of humanity, except for himself and Sara, so they can get married, have children, and live out their days on an empty planet. Sara responds by attacking Robotnik.
- Yuji and Marlene in Blue Gender eventually find themselves in this role, even though they weren't the last remaining humans on Earth.
Comic Books
- In a variation, on pre-Crisis Krypton the planet was, according to legend, populated by two Human Alien space travelers named Kryp and Tonn.
- Which may be why marriage between cousins was legal in Silver Age Krypton as Kal-El creepily mentions to Kara once in a discussion that very lightly hits on this topic (they would be Adam and Eve if they weren't content with letting the species die with them).
- Lampshaded on Post-IC Daxam. While the entire Daxamite race descends from Kryptonian explorers and the original, native Aboriginal Daxamite, the whole intermingling is summarized by a single, telltale meeting: a young, male Daxamite inviting a young, sexy Aboriginal Daxamite to join him in "their beutiful new home". Despite speaking nothing but the Language of Love, the couple, and by proxy their two races, elope in the current, Daxamite race.
- A sinister twist on this plot is given in an EC Comics story about the aftermath of a nuclear war. The male protagonist spends the story searching for other life, wondering if there's anyone left, only to find a woman with whom he suspects he could repopulate the Earth. That is, until he learns that the woman is his sister. What happens next is left to the imagination.
- There's one story in the short lived Weird Science comic series ("A New Beginning" from issue 22) where a man and a woman from the distant future end up becoming Adam and Eve after their time machine leaves them stranded in the past.
- In one of the later ElfQuest stories, a small family of trolls find themselves stranded in a country where there are no other trolls. Flash forward a few thousand years and there are lots of trolls running around. Incest is hinted at but never stated outright.
- For that matter, if we go by the story How Shall I Keep From Singing, it appears that all elves are descendant from a total of eight High Ones (and one wolf). The "no problem with inbreeding" can probably be explained with Recognition weeding out genetic defects.
- One or two of the prose stories in the Blood of Ten Chiefs anthologies do name other High Ones that don't appear in How Shall I Keep From Singing, although the total population still wasn't very big.
- For that matter, if we go by the story How Shall I Keep From Singing, it appears that all elves are descendant from a total of eight High Ones (and one wolf). The "no problem with inbreeding" can probably be explained with Recognition weeding out genetic defects.
- Averted in Y: The Last Man: While Yorick wants to do this with his girlfriend Beth, it's pointed out that it would be impossible to do so with just two people. In the end, a combination of Adams, Eves, and cloning help bring the human race back.
- Xemnu the Titan is an alien who has had this goal since he first appeared in the age of Marvel Monsters. Most of his plans have involved transforming human children into beings like himself, although his most recent plot (in She-Hulk's comic) involved trying it on She-Hulk in order to mate with her.
- In Brightest Day, the insane and evil D'kay D'razz wants to revive the Green Martian race with Martian Manhunter J'onn J'onzz. Even if the plan weren't horribly flawed, she's infertile and deeply in denial about it.
- In a magazine cartoon that allows you to recreate the circumstances of the time (even if you know very little about the 60's) the two survivors of an atomic war are a black man and a black woman. The man is saying to the woman "I'm sure Senator Russell would be pleased that the last two people on Earth are not only Americans, but from Georgia!"
- When Vartox's people were hit with a Sterility Plague, he asked Power Girl to help him breed the next generation. Power Girl points out the flaws in this plan. Eventually, they cure his people's sterility instead.
Power Girl: You didn't seriously think we could repopulate an entire planet, did you?Vartox: Given our stamina and power levels, I had assumed...Power Girl: I may have a lot of super-powered body parts, but even us super-heroines have limits.
- Tank Girl: Apocalypse leads into an Adam and Eve plot, but this is not picked up on in later books.
Fan Works
- Higher Learning: Shinji and Asuka became this after the Third Impact in the original timeline. A character mentions it several times. The logical consequences do not go unmentioned.
- The Second Try: Asuka and Shinji discuss this during one of the "flashback" chapters.
- In Friendship is Physics, Star Swirl the Bearded mentions an unethical experiment he heard about. A male and female child were released into a sealed, artificial environment with no other contact. The two ponies grew up, but while they cared about each other, it never ever occurred to them to mate. The ones in charge of the experiment concluded that the stories of ponykind originating from a single male - female pair were false.
Film — Animated
- Rio, the other Adam and Eve-plotted film of 2011 is about a blue Spix macaw who is sent to Rio in order to mate with the last remaining female of his kind.
- Later subverted by the sequel which shows an entire flock of blue parrots hiding in the Amazon.
- The now-canceled Pixar animated film Newt, about the last male and female blue-footed newts on Earth forced to mate to continue the species, even though they don't quite like each other to begin with. It was cancelled to avoid Dueling Movies with the above two.
- 9 ends with this - sort of. Bonus points for the remaining stitchpunks (9, 7, 3 + 4) forming a sort-of Adam and Eve family, complete with Cain and Abel... but not the trope, thankfully.
- Subverted in Ice Age 2: The Meltdown: Manny and Ellie think they are the last mammoths on Earth, when in fact a whole colony still exists (later seen in the film). However, the pool is probably very small, seeing as mammoths eventually did go extinct.
- In Titan A.E., when the hero and heroine find the eponymous ship, onboard are genetic samples for long-destroyed Earth's species. Also, in a way, they are a symbolic "Adam and Eve". However, they do not need to populate the new world, mankind has been scattered across the galaxy and thus, they only need to call humans to the new planet. But who says that they won't anyway?
- Alpha and Omega initially started with Humphrey and Kate being sent to Idaho to repopulate. Humphrey loved the idea more than Kate did.
Film — Live Action
- Lampshaded in Matinee, a film set in the Cuban missile crisis, when the teen protagonists get locked in a nuclear shelter during a bomb scare. Ten Minutes in the Closet Ensues.
"What if we're the only ones left?""Then we become... Adam and Eve."
- Jim Henson and Frank Oz's The Dark Crystal has Jen and Kira, who both thought they were the last Gelfling until they met the other. And since Gelflings can now live in peace after the Skeksis and Mystics join bodies, they obviously will end up repopulating the Gelfling species.
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home uses the animal version of this trope. This is a bit of a Double Subversion, as the animals actually do go extinct, but Time Travel rectifies the situation by bringing back the tropal two. Also, they aren't being brought forward to breed per se but to convince an alien probe not to destroy Earth. The novelization acknowledges that two (or three) individuals aren't enough to repopulate a species, so 23rd-century scientists are going to clone additional whales from cell samples preserved before the species was wiped out. (It's said that they couldn't have restored the species just by cloning, because humpback whales have enough learned behavior that they wouldn't be able to survive without someone to teach them.)
- A rather disturbing variant occurs in 28 Days Later. It's left unclear whether the leader of surviving military members at the end of the film actually believes they can repopulate the Earth (or just Britain) with the two female survivors they have left, expects to capture more women, or simply decides to keep them to placate his unit while they wait for the end.
- This was the twist ending to Mystery Science Theater 3000 alumnus Women of the Prehistoric Planet.
- The more practical variant (about a dozen Adams and Eves) is brought up in The Matrix sequels when Neo learns that the true purpose of The One is to select 21 women and 7 men who will repopulate Zion after the machines destroy it. The machines know this will work since they've done it five times before.
- Not to mention that unplugging humans out of the Matrix is their main means of increasing their numbers. Why wait for babies to grow up when there are billions of adults ready to harvest?
- Planet of the Apes:
- This was actually the initial plan in the original Planet of the Apes (1968). It was scrapped when the only female crew member was killed in the crash landing.
- In Planet of the Apes (2001), all humans on Ashlar (the name of the planet is given in comics) are descended from the crew of the crashed Oberon, which happened over 3000 years before. The ship doesn't look big enough to contain enough humans to sustain a population for that long, especially on a world populated by hostile insectoids and dinosaurs that even the well-organized simians have trouble dealing with.
- The plot of the second Eddie Murphy Dr. Dolittle film revolves around saving a forest from a logging company by getting the native female of a species of bear on the verge of extinction to mate with the only male bear of the same species that could be found. When Dolittle earlier argues that having an endangered bear in the forest should be enough to protect it, he is told that since there is only the one, the species would die out anyway. By that rationale, even getting another bear to mate should be useless for protecting the forest, since there is no way a single mating pair would be viable for saving the species.
- Knowing ends with aliens/angels removing a number of child pairings from the doomed Earth in order to allow humanity to survive on another planet. Slightly subverted in that the angels/aliens actually understand genetics and so have taken far more than one 'breeding pair' but the idea is still there.
- Star Quest II Aliens using humans to breed alien/human hybrid to preserve the former's species in some form. Problem: they only actually get one couple at the end, the others on the spaceship having been killed.
- Prefigured in Die Insel Felsenburg (1731) by Johann Gottfried Schnabel, where the protagonist and his wife populate an entire desert island.
- Will Ferguson's novel Happiness (tm) mentions this phenomenon from an editor's perspective.
- The Damon Knight short story Not With A Bang had two survivors of a biological war, one being an infirm pilot who barely survived the plague and the other being a nurse who had a natural immunity. The repopulating never happens, because she is a very moral woman and they're not married. (And where are they going to find a priest?) After much coaxing and cajoling, she agrees to marry him. He then suffers a final attack of the sickness in the one place she would never follow him: The men's bathroom.
- It also directly addresses the incest issue - namely, the Adam finds his Eve so annoying he plans to leave her for their first daughter. On the other hand, the story never precludes the possibility that more successful Adam And Eve Plots happened.
- Played in Animorphs, the book "The Change." There are several Adam and Eve references to Jara Hamee and Ket Halpak, the first two free Hork-Bajir since the Yeerks enslaved them.
- In Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles stories:
- Subverted in "The Silent Towns". A man wakes up to find that he's been left on Mars by accident after most of the Martian colony has gone back to Earth. He begins dialing phone numbers in a desperate attempt for human contact and manages get in touch with a woman, who he begins to fall in love with (based on their brief phone conversation). When they finally meet, he finds her obnoxious and decides he'd prefer a life of isolation.
- The final story plays the trope fairly straight though, although it leaves it open whether or not "Adam and Eve" will actually meet up (and the human race will continue).
- In Orson Scott Card's Homecoming Saga, sixteen people (only four of whom had no genetic connection to someone else in the group) from the planet Harmony were selected to return to Earth and re-establish the human population. It was established that since the Oversoul (the supercomputer that had been running the planet for millennia) had been running a breeding program for just this situation, any recessive traits that would pop up in such a closed population had been bred out of them (it was also revealed that Harmony was not the only such human-populated planet, nor was it the first to return to Earth).
- There was a "short short story" that started to set up this trope in the style of the Twilight Zone episode mentioned below... then Adam was accidentally castrated.
- Subverted in a completely different way by Larry Niven's short story "What Can You Say About Chocolate Coated Manhole Covers?" The story begins with the main characters at a party having a fun conversation. They speculate on how the Adam and Eve legend could work in real life, purely as an intellectual exercise. They conclude, for the obvious reasons, that one pair could not populate an entire planet. They come up with an elaborate scheme based on Real Life stock breeding techniques, involving many pairs and small groups that are isolated from each other by geography. Then... an alien kidnaps the protagonists, strands them on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, and tells them that they've just figured out the aliens' secret plan for breeding an 'improved' form of human being.
- Parodied in a Harlan Ellison short-short story, "The Voice in the Garden" where two humans who are sole survivors of some sort meet each other and decide to do this. The woman is of course named Eve, and the man... George.
- In one of Michael Swanwick's "element" short-shorts, an experiment creates a new universe populated by one man and one woman. The man's name is Adam, so naturally the woman takes a new name... Jennifer.
- In Meredith Ann Pierce's The Firebringer Trilogy, four hundred years before the books begin, the unicorns' princess and warleader sends four scouts out to seek verification of claims being made by wyverns who want to emigrate to the same territory as the unicorns. Quite some time after the scouts leave, one comes stumbling back with the news the four were sent to get, and notes that one of their companions died along the way. The other two were kept as hostages. Fast-forward four hundred years to the travels of Jan, the books' main character, and when he reaches that part of the world what does he find but a small, well-protected herd of unicorns who all look very much like the descendants of the last two scouts. And yes, the incest factor is acknowledged. There's also the implication that these unicorns wouldn't have survived to breed to these numbers if they hadn't had the protection of powerful dragons.
- The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect ends this way. The details of which are not left to the imagination.
- Xanth has numerous examples of this trope with novel types of crossbreeds. Typically, it starts with one crossbreed looking for another of his/her kind to mate with. Somehow, he/she finds one, and then a few books later their child goes on a similar quest.
- Toyed with the the first novel. After doing research in Castle Roogna, Trent is the first person to realize that even though there are plenty of humans around, without fresh blood the omnipresence of magic will eventually lead to humanity's extinction. They will keep producing more crossbreeds, or just plain mutate from too much magic (Humphrey is implied to be on his way to becoming this). As inconvenient as the sporadic invasions from Mundania are, they provide fresh, non-magical genetic stock for humanity.
- Eventually subverted in the case of the winged centaurs. When we first meet them, there's just the two of them and this trope seems to be in full force. In later volumes, we find out that they've been gathering volunteers from other races to be transformed by Magician Trent into winged centaurs.
- Averted in "Rescue Run", one of Anne McCaffrey's short stories, by the handful of colonists left alive on the Southern Continent of Pern. Convinced that all other humans have been wiped out by Threadfall, domineering jerkass Kimmer forces marriage on the sole remaining female in his group, then refuses to allow any further breeding due to the limited gene pool.
- In The Magician's Nephew, Aslan appoints a London cabby and his wife to be Narnia's first king and queen, as well as its first (and only) human inhabitants. Incest issues are averted when their kids grow up to marry wood nymphs and other spirits. This eventually dilutes their bloodline to a point where, when the White Witch returns to conquer Narnia, there's apparently no one left in Narnia who's human enough to contest her claim. After a time, Aslan sends the Pevensie children to do so.
- However, Narnia has a sister country in their ally of Archenland, which was fully populated by humans. Also, the subornate island nations, and the southern enemy nation of Calormene. There's not much explanation for how these people got there, though it might have been similar to how the Telmarenes showed up. C. S. Lewis didn't expect to write more than the first book, until popular demand had him go back and expand the world.
- According to CS Lewis' official timeline for the history of Narnia, the first humans - as well as intermarrying with Narnian nymphs and dryads and stars and the like - also quickly spread out within a handful of generations to colonise the until-then mostly barren neighbouring lands of Archenland and Calormene. All the part-humans in those three lands could trace their heritage back to the very first humans to enter Narnia (Frank and his wife). The Telmarines, by contrast, were pirates shipwrecked on an island who accidentally crossed over to a land bordering Narnia, established themselves there as the Kingdom of Telmar, and invaded Narnia shortly after the Pevensies left at the end of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
- However, Narnia has a sister country in their ally of Archenland, which was fully populated by humans. Also, the subornate island nations, and the southern enemy nation of Calormene. There's not much explanation for how these people got there, though it might have been similar to how the Telmarenes showed up. C. S. Lewis didn't expect to write more than the first book, until popular demand had him go back and expand the world.
- Perhaps the Ur-Example in (somewhat) modern Science Fiction is Jules Verne's short story "The Eternal Adam" (1911).
- Another classic subversion is "Adam and No Eve" by Alfred Bester, in which the protagonist would be happy to fulfill the plot, but no woman is available. At the end of the story he drowns himself so that his bacteria will survive in the ocean and hopefully evolve into a new sentient species one day—needing no Adam and no Eve.
- Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships: an expedition from an alternative Great Britain becomes stranded in the deep past after an attack from a time-traveling bomber from their enemies in their own time. They survive, and the protagonist gets to watch them rise from a tiny tribe to a space-traveling civilization as he travels in time, a sequence which is rather unpleasantly like watching mold conquer a petri dish.
- Z for Zachariah: Anne imagines this with Mr. Loomis since they are, or so she believes, the last survivors in America and possibly the whole world following a nuclear war. Turns out he was way ahead of her, leading to Attempted Rape and causing her to run away from him, which forms the catalyst for the ending of the book.
- Olaf Stapledon's future history novel Last and First Men has at one point the entire mankind reduced to roughly a dozen individuals. They manage to repopulate the Earth with apparently no catastrophic effects from inbreeding. (Then again, the end result is a whole new species of humanity, albeit a better species in many ways.)
- C. S. Lewis' Perelandra: It's another planet's version of Adam and Eve, but they still live in paradise and a world without sin or suffering.
- A mild case occurs in Mikhail Akhmanov's Arrivals from the Dark series, where an alien race purchases a pair of eagles for their collection and releases them to roam on one of their preserve worlds (they live in orbital habitats). A century later, the eagles number in the hundreds and have adapted to the new world. This happens again, when another pair of eagles are taken from this world to a remote human colony on a world with a much harsher, colder climate. Despite this, the eagles once again increase their numbers and thrive.
- Andrey Livadny's novel Ark is set aboard a Moon-sized (literally; it's actually the hollowed-out Moon with engines attached) Generation Ship sent a long time ago from Earth to find and collect alien life and put them in specially-adapted habitats. A catastrophe kills the command crew and forces the rest of the humans to live in one of the habitats, leaving the ship's AI to fly the damaged craft. Over time, the humans regress to near-Medieval state and forget their origins. At the end of the novel, the Ark crash-lands into the sea on a habitable world orbiting a yellow dwarf, and the first person out is an old shepherd named Noah. How the ship ended up in the past is not explained. It is also not clear what happened to the aliens on-board.
- The post-apocalyptic story "Mecanoscrit" by Manuel de Pedrolo ends with the creepy variant that the Adam-character dies, and the Eve-character wondering if she would live long enough to have her infant son grow up and have children with him, and a footnote stating that the entire story is a historical document.
- Keep in mind though that the entire story is written from Alba's ("Eve") perspective, save for the last episode, which is stated to be an analysis from a future investigator, who wonders about its authenticity but pretty much states that if what's on the text is true, then Alba is the mother of modern mankind.
- With all the religious symbolism that shows up in Greg Egan's Permutation City, it's only fitting that it should end with Paul and Maria setting off together into their own newly-created universe.
- In His Dark Materials Lyra and Will end up being this at the end to ensure that Dust continues to flow down and into the worlds. Phillip Pullman even goes further with it and creates a serpent out of Mary Malone and a garden of Eden type world. In this case, what was important was not the mating and reproduction (they didn't produce a child a together from their one time), but the act of intimately connecting to another sentient being and sharing/expressing the love they felt.
- In Bob Shaw's short story Call Me Dumbo, a family live in an isolated cottage, but it turns out that the parents were the sole survivors of a spaceship crash, and the mother was originally a man on whom the father performed a non-consensual sex change operation and suppressed his/her memory using drugs.
- The ending of Invitation To The Game has the characters conclude that the eponymous Game's purpose is to train them as colonists for a new planet. However, they're True Companions with no romantic interest in each other... then they find another group, and realize several such groups have been placed on the new planet, close enough to form relatively accessible settlements, so there will be plenty of breeding material.
- In Poul Anderson's After Doomsday, the women are well aware of the flaws of this reasoning; though they know that many people have survived, they are also aware that the men outnumber the women and make plans for polyandry so that every surviving woman will have children by several men.
- The Gene Wolfe short story "Procreation" has a variant, and indeed a Shaggy God Story: the writer creates a miniature Universe. Deciding to let the creatures within know how they came to be, he and his sister ('Sis') write an account of the creation and drop it into the Universe. They don't know what to call the book, so just write their names on the cover. 'Gene' + 'Sis'
- "Born of the Sun" is a 1934 short story that is probably the reason why most editors had a policy of rejecting stories with this twist on sight. It starts out fine enough, with the heroes managing to build a spaceship to escape the Earth before it is destroyed, and they originally plan to defy this trope by saving as many people as they can. Unfortunately, it seems like the writer thought that he had no choice but to use the trope for this kind of story, because in the last few pages, the villain manages to whip up everybody except the male and female leads into a religious fervor and destroy the original spaceship, even though most of these people were volunteers who showed no sign of believing in the villain's cult at any earlier point in the story. Fortunately, the male and female lead have a smaller spaceship which they use to leave the Earth, but they are all alone. The implication is that their descendants will populate the universe, but then it runs into Fridge Logic that they wouldn't have enough genetic diversity to keep the species going, which the author seems at least vaguely aware of because of the aforementioned spoiler.
- During the end of Sea of the Patchwork Cats, with Jen digested and Kara killed by the Queen of Cats, Conrad and Jaji are now the last human on the planet (if Jaji even counts), the ending having Jaji pregnant while Conrad contemplates the future.
- The ending of The Maze Runner trilogy. Out of the entire human race, only a select few are able to resist the influence of the Flare virus. They are thus humanity's last hope to rebuild the Earth. However, that last few actually number several hundreds, which is far more realistic than the usual application of this trope.
Live-Action TV
- The Twilight Zone (1959):
- A classic, and rather literal, example can be found in the episode "Probe 7, Over and Out". An astronaut named Adam Cook crash lands on what appears to be a barren planet. Equipment failures keep him from radioing his homeworld, but he receives transmissions that indicate it has blown itself up in a nuclear war. While searching the planet, he comes across a woman, also stranded there. They can't communicate in words, but they make due by gestures and drawing in the sand. Eventually, it comes out that she's called the planet "Irth" and her name is... Eve Norda.
- The episode "Two" had Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as the (as far as we know) sole survivors — from opposite sides, no less — of a city-destroying war between two unnamed factions. Rod Serling's narration in the episode purposefully says that it could be set at any time during the past or future, and that "The signposts are in English so that we may read them more easily".
- The Outer Limits (1995):
- The revival did this in a two-part story with the episodes "Double Helix" and "Origin of Species". The sample size was 8 students and one professor, and it is immediately pointed out that they could not possibly repopulate the planet alone. It's hand waved by the spaceship that took them into the future, which altered their genes to ensure maximum diversity and created hundreds of babies to further pad the gap. Subtly played with in the fact that both the professor and his son are exempt from being "Adams" due to a genetic disease (and are therefore vaporized), but live on as holograms to assist their friends.
- The episode "Phobos Rising" also hints at this plot, with the Earth possibly destroyed and only two Mars colonies with a combined population of less than fifty as survivors. Unfortunately, accidents fueling Enforced Cold War paranoia end up destroying both colonies with only a pair of defectors surviving. Subverted in the final few minutes, when the surviving pair on Mars receive a transmission from Earth, telling them that the Moon was accidentally destroyed and in the wake of the devastation on Earth, both sides have called a truce.
- The episode "Resurrection" takes place in a world where humanity has been replaced by robots who overthrew their former masters, who are now extinct. Two robot scientists decide to bring back humanity by illegally breeding an adult human male. They manage to keep him hidden until they can deactivate all the other robots, sacrificing their own lives in the process. The last scene shows that they have also bred an adult human female so they can repopulate humanity. Of course this still ignores population genetics, and they didn't give the guy the necessary skills to keep breeding humans artificially.
- The Seven Days episode "Adam & Eve & Adam" has a Neutron Bomb obliterate humanity. Parker, Olga, Owlsey, & Army officer Major Jones have to journey back to Project Backstep. At one point, Owlsey kills Jones and tries to kill off Parker to start an Adam and Eve Plot with Olga. Of course, at the time, he was Ax-Crazy from radiation poisoning. Parker, per his usual shtick, must Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
- Several episodes feature the destruction of nearly all life on Earth. In fact, in one case, Parker is the only survivor of a plot by an alien conveniently nicknamed "Adam" and has to manually start the Sphere to backstep.
- Doctor Who: The villain's plan in "Timelash" is essentially to cause this trope with his own planet — and he wants Peri to be his Eve.
- Also part of Luke Rattigan's plan to take his group of genius students to another planet in recompense for selling Earth to the Sontarans - he's even drawn up a breeding schedule! Needless to say, the one girl in the group isn't too happy with the idea.
- Implied to be the fate of the Tellers in "Time Heist."
- Suggested by Clyde in an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Rani has other ideas.
- Played out in the finale of the 2000s Battlestar Galactica, wherein the Colonists become the distant ancestors of the modern human race, and Hera Agathon is played up as being the Mitochondrial Eve.
- Done in an episode of Dinosaurs with unnaturally cute, little furball-type animals.
- Truth in Television example: One episode of Hoarders came close to this trope, featuring a man with over 2000 fancy rats living free in his house. He'd accidentally allowed his one male and two female pet rats to escape, months earlier, and hadn't had the heart to let them starve or set traps, with inevitable consequences.
- Star Trek: The Original Series:
- The original pilot, "The Cage", has a group of Rubber-Forehead Aliens who try to use their Lotus-Eater Machine to convince Captain Pike to play Adam for them with an Eve of his choice.
- The story was expanded in "The Menagerie", using footage from the pilot. The aliens, called the Talosians here, release Pike and his crew after finding that humans "have a hatred of captivity". The "Eve", named Vina here, must stay behind, however, as leaving would cause her to die from the injuries sustained by her true body that are suppressed by their technology. In the present day, with Pike being an old and invalid man, they offer to let him live with them again, where he can gain his youth and health back and live with Vina. He accepts, and it remains ambiguous whether the Plot ever succeeded.
- Another episode has the crew encounter a disembodied creature known as Sargon, who claims that the human Adam and Eve were explorers from his race. When the humans refute this claim by citing evolution, Spock admits that the Vulcan creation myth also fits Sargon's story.
- An episode of Stargate Universe reveals that, thanks to a Timey-Wimey Ball, an alternate version of the Destiny crew (minus Rush and Telford) got thrown 2000 years into the past and had to set up a settlement on planet Novus. When "our" Destiny crew encounters them, they're a formerly thriving civilization of millions, forced to abandon their planet when a black hole was detected approaching the system. There is no mention of any inbreeding, although it is possible the crew's descendants have figured out how to maintain genetic diversity, even though all of them are descended from a few dozen people.
- In Stargate SG-1, the Alpha Site was intended to invoke this trope should an alien invasion overcome Earth's defenses. This was a real threat in the early seasons (they actually started moving personnel offworld in "The Serpent's Lair"), but the threat diminishes after Earth first gains Asgard military protection, then becomes a spacefaring power in its own right.
- Kaya, a water nymph, uses Malone for one in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. It doesn't stop Veronica from getting the wrong idea.
- Kamen Rider Gaim offers a twist on the concept: At the end of the series, Kouta and Mai have evolved beyond humanity and gained the power to shape the world to their will. Rather than destroying the planet he fought so hard to protect, Kouta uses his new powers to create a portal to a distant, uninhabited planet and states that that is the world he'll shape. DJ Sagara, the story's Satan analogue, urges them to "be fruitful and multiply" after openly noting the irony of his doing so.
- In Tensou Sentai Goseiger, The Movie involves the heroes trying to protect an "Eve" figure whose home planet was destroyed by an Artifact of Doom that the villains are now trying to get their hands on. At the end of the movie, "Adam" returns and takes her back to their planet for them to begin rebuilding their world.
- In The Last Man on Earth, after Carol finds Phil, she takes it as a matter of course that they'll have to mate to repopulate the species. Phil, who's taken a quick dislike to her, refuses. (It's two years after The Plague wiped out the human race.) And then another woman and man show up to complicate things.
- Though not quite down to two people, the original "Survivors" featured humanity wiped out except for 1 in 10,000 people. When Charles was first introduced, a defining character trait was his belief that the survivors needed to focus on breeding to rebuild the human species (this trait was later downplayed once he became a main character).
- On The 100, when Kane is considering killing large segments of the Ark's population to conserve oxygen, he says he's willing to reduce the Ark to "a cosmic Adam and Eve" if necessary.
- "Man Gave Names To All The Animals" by Bob Dylan from Slow Train Coming is based on Adam naming all the animals in the Garden of Eden. It's rather childlike in nature and has often been called one of Dylan's worst songs in terms of lyrics.
- "Snake" by PJ Harvey from Rid of Me
You snake (You snake)I ate (I ate)A true (A true)Belief (Belief)Good Lord (Good Lord)That fruit's (That's fruit's)Inside (Inside)Of me (Of me)Oh Adam (Oh Ad-)Please (-am please)
Mythology and Religion
- Book of Genesis:
- The trope namer is the story of Adam and Eve. After the first man and woman are created, God's first instructions to them is: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth".
- Implied in chapter 4, which identifies three children of Adam and Eve: Cain, Abel, and Seth. After Cain kills Abel, Cain moved east to the land of Nod, where he married someone and had at least one son, Enoch. The identity of Cain's wife is a matter of much debate, along with how he and Seth managed to populate the Earth on their own. Explanations include the following:
- The Bible is unclear how much time passed before Cain killed Abel, and it is clear that there were other children - both sons and daughters. Daughters are not tracked in the Bible unless they're very, very important. Sons are only tracked if they're relevant to the plot (Adam to Noah to Abraham to David to Jesus). Seth is not born till after Cain and mentioned as a replacement for Abel only because that's the bloodline to Noah. It's actually All There in the Manual, if you can read it in Hebrew. Anyway, the implication is that Cain married one of his sisters, which was considered acceptable because of the necessity to be fruitful and populate the Earth.
- An alternative explanation is that chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis are in chronological order instead of different versions of the same events. That is, the people Cain married into were the ones created on the sixth day of creation and a separate creation from Eden and Adam's bloodline. This is part of a concept known as "polygenism."
- After The Great Flood, humanity is reduced to eight people (Noah, his wife, Noah's three sons and their wives) and all others are descended from this family.
- Norse Mythology: Several instances are mentioned or implied in the Eddas:
- When the Aesir kill Ymir, all the giants drown in his blood except one couple, Begelmir and his wife, from whom all later giants are descended (Prose Edda).
- The first humans are created by Odin and his two brothers as a couple, Ask and Embla. Suspiciously, their names begin with the same letters as Adam and Eve, which could be an allusion to the Book of Genesis (Poetic Edda, Prose Edda).
- In Ragnarok, all humanity is destined to perish except a single couple, Lif and Lifthrasir, who will repopulate Earth (Poetic Edda, Prose Edda).
- Averted in the Classical Mythology version of The Flood: one man and one woman are left, however they are asked by the gods to throw earth over their shoulders, and this earth turns into sufficient men and women to actually repopulate the world.
- Mabinogion Branwen verch Llyr: The Britons invade Ireland and kill everybody except five pregnant women hiding in a cave. The five women bear five sons who repopulate the island. Hence the five provinces of Ireland.
- In the BBC Radio Drama Earthsearch, the crew of the Challenger end the series by giving up the search for their long-lost home planet Earth, settling instead on the planet "Paradise", which they vow to make "their own Earth" — it's much like their Earth, except that it's two-thirds covered in saltwater oceans, has four seasons, and is the third planet from its sun. Cleverly, throughout the series they had dropped hints that "their Earth" was not the same planet as ours, but then covered them up with Expospeak: for example, the other planets of their solar system have different names from ours, but as soon as this is revealed, it is mentioned offhand that the planets had been renamed. Likewise, we are told that their Earth was the second planet from its sun, but we are told this by a computer which is speculating wildly based on inaccurate information. To keep the Shaggy God Story going, early in Earthsearch 2, the crew loads breeding pairs of animals into a shuttle to wait out a global flood.
- From a sci-fi series called "X - 1" (X! Minus! One!): A scientist in Captain Ersatz-East Germany, along with his assistant Alan and beautiful daughter Ava have developed a way to shrink things to subatomic size and are planning to use it to smuggle aid and, eventually, people. Fascist government thugs break into the lab and Alan and Ava are forced to hide in the shrinking machine, which gets turned on either by accident, a plan by the scientist, or because the leader of the fascist thugs demanded a demonstration. Alan and Ava are briefly seen exploring the surface of a planet-sized electron, which they liken to a desert with the central atomic cluster as its sun (I know I fail physics forever and atoms aren't described that way anymore). When the scientist reverses the machine, to his surprise Alan and Ava are gone but a mysterious voice issues in their place, saying that they eventually populated the electron-planet and it was a peaceful and prosperous land for thousands of (atomic) years, and to make sure the peace lasted beyond their deaths they wrote a book of instructions for their descendants. The scientist is incredulous that Alan and Ava are both long-since dead and the parents of a peaceful race; unfortunately I can't recall the fascist thugs' reaction.
Video Games
- The adventure game Lost Eden features two main human characters — Adam and Eve, living in a world where dinosaurs rule over humans. At the end of the game, it is revealed the dinosaurs will go extinct and Adam and Eve will lead humans into an age where they are the dominant species.
- Downplayed in Halo: When the Forerunners were forced to fire the Halos and wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy in order to stop the Flood, they stored as many specimens from different species as they could on the Ark, a giant installation located far away from the Halos' effects. After the Halos had fired, these specimens were sent back to repopulate their various homeworlds.
- In Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes, the invading aliens kill all the men, and La Résistance calls up Duke from their past to help. The ending shows a clear Adam and Eve Plot, although in this case it's more an "Adam and Eve-land" Plot.
- The good ending of Odin Sphere. After The End of the World as We Know It, Oswald and Gwendolyn are the only two humans left alive and presumably, the ones who repopulate the devastated planet. Well, Velvet and Cornelius survived it too, but they're not exactly human anymore (unless you get the Golden Ending).
- Referenced in Half-Life 2 (one of the episodes, anyway) where the well-intentioned Dr. Kleiner mentions on the monitors previously used for Breencasts (and which are therefore presumably scattered strategically worldwide) that since the Combine suppression field that had been inhibiting pregnancies was now gone, that those so inclined might as well set about replenishing the human population. Alyx incredulously asks the question that was likely in every player's head at that moment: "Did he just tell everyone to... get busy?"
- Shin Megami Tensei I. There's a possibility that the characters actually are Reincarnations of Adam and Eve. At least, Lillth thinks so.
- Shin Megami Tensei II's neutral ending has the Heroine say this is what they need to do as they walk off into the sunset.
- Shadow of the Colossus The bridge to the Shrine of Worship is destroyed as Lord Emon and his men escape. That just leaves Mono and Wander to repopulate the Cursed Land.
- Parodied in Left 4 Dead:
Zoey: Wait, that makes me the last woman on earth... Shit.
- And in the sequel, when Rochelle dies:
Nick: There goes repopulating the earth.
- And in the sequel, when Rochelle dies:
- Radiant Silvergun where at the end it turns out that the first humans on Earth are the clones of last humans on Earth who were sent back in time for Reset Button.
- Averted in Mass Effect: The last hundred or so surviving Protheans were put into stasis, but the genocide of the Protheans by the Reapers lasted centuries. In order to conserve energy, Vigil, the pseudo-AI watching over them, had to initiate a contingency program that would shut down stasis pods one-by-one, starting from the lowest ranking individuals upwards. By the time the genocide ended centuries later, only the top dozen Protheans remained, which, as Vigil pointed out, was far too few to repopulate the species.
- Mass Effect 3 has the appropriately named Eve, the sole female krogan who has been cured of the genophage thanks to Maelon's experiments in Mass Effect 2. This makes her the prime candidate for starting the krogan's repopulation efforts.
- In Mass Effect 3 if you sided with Wrex and released the cure for the Genophage, he is considered a Prime male for breeding with the females of his species.
- Subverted in Fallout 3: The Overseer of Vault 101 refuses to let anyone out of the Vault because he thinks it's the last settlement of humans uncorrupted by the chaos outside, but it's possible to convince him otherwise by pointing out that the Vault doesn't have enough genetic diversity to survive.
- Assassin's Creed II shows a different interpretation of Adam and Eve. In the games' story, humanity originally began as a slave race created by a highly evolved and technologically advanced (possibly alien) race. If you find all the glyphs and unlock the hidden video, you see a 20 second clip of Adam and Eve parkouring their way through a factory and escaping. If you look above in the Mythology section you'll see this is closer to the Summarian Adam and Eve than the Biblical one.
- Actually, they led a human revolt against the "gods" with the help of a Piece of Eden.
- The Excuse Plot of Volfied ends with this.
- In Chaos Rings and its prequel Chaos Rings Ω the entire purpose of the Ark is to set one up using the best possible Battle Couple to breed humans capable of defeating an Eldritch Abomination. However, the genetic problems with this trope are addressed in the first game: in Ayuta's story, there's a bit where it's claimed that the First Couples are dropped off at an era with plenty of other humans for breeding.
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword ends with Link and Zelda, rather than returning to Skyloft, deciding to remain in what would eventually become Hyrule. While it's probably safe to assume they won't be the only ones to repopulate the surface (the cloud barrier between it and Skyloft has disappeared, making it possible for anyone to come), the Adam and Eve symbolism is still very apparent.
- After you clear the first Act of each area in ActRaiser, the Master creates a temple and two people, a man and a woman, to lead the local civilization, for the most part these two people are the ones who specifically address you when you listen to the peoples' prayers.
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: The Orphe are reduced to a mere five individuals by the time humanity rescues them from the Ganglion. Fortunately, due to Orphe reproducing via "fission" rather than sex, there isn't any danger of inbreeding. Unfortunately, they require a specific chemical (senirapa water) to use as a catalyst for their reproduction, and they only have a few cups of it left. Once they find a way to produce more, their population grows extremely rapidly.
Western Animation
- In Avatar: The Last Airbender, it's stated that airbenders still existing is important both for the balance of the nations and so the next Avatar has someone to teach them, implying Aang would have to restore the Air Nomads with his descendants. This was lampshaded in a video at the San Diego ComicCon 2008. However, in The Legend of Korra, set 70 years later, we see even if only one parent is an airbender the children still can be: one of Aang's children with Katara (a waterbender) was an airbender, and three of his children with his non-bender wife are airbenders. (No word yet on if his youngest is one, he's only a baby after all.)
- Beginning in season 3 of Korra, some non-benders start to develop airbending abilities following the spiritual convergence, which neatly sidesteps the mating problem.
- Subverted in Futurama, where Leela falls in love with someone she believes to be another cyclops. Even when his personality gets to be too much to bear, Leela feels that she owes it to her species to repopulate. As it turns out, Alcazar was a shape-shifter - who had fooled four other girls. After Fry exposes him, the wedding is called off. Of course, it later turns out that Leela is really a sewer mutant.
- In the comics, after the Professor teleports Earth's population to the dinosaur age, minus Fry, Bender, Leela and Cubert, the Omicronians show up to salvage the uninhabited Earth, unless our heroes can display one hundred Earthlings, proving Earth still has people. This trope may have been Fry's idea, earning him a slap from Leela.
Fry: Okay, fine. Then YOU come up with another way for us to repopulate the planet.
- Leela seems to attract this a lot. Of course, when the Adam in question is Zapp Brannigan...
- In the comics, after the Professor teleports Earth's population to the dinosaur age, minus Fry, Bender, Leela and Cubert, the Omicronians show up to salvage the uninhabited Earth, unless our heroes can display one hundred Earthlings, proving Earth still has people. This trope may have been Fry's idea, earning him a slap from Leela.
- Adventure Time has a different take on the typical Adam and Eve plot, in the episode "You Made Me!". Lemongrab refers to his creator as "his Glob" (his God.) She spends the whole episode trying to figure out how to help him. At the end of the episode, Princess Bubblegum makes Lemongrab a clone of himself, so he won't be alone. The whole plot is reminiscent of God making Eve for Adam to prevent Adam from being the only one of his kind. The whole episode revolved around existential themes, and the idea of having "the perfect mate" who makes one feel whole. Whether or not the relationship between the two Lemongrabs was romantic or platonic/brotherly love is up to the viewer.
- Later episodes make it clear that they view each other as brothers and address each other as such...until the first Lemongrab eats the second, making this into another Biblical story...
- The very end of Æon Flux's series finale, End Sinister.
- In the episode of Family Guy "Friends Without Benefits", Meg daydreams that she and a boy she's crushing on are the last two humans after the Earth is destroyed. The boy decides that they should repopulate. And the two of them start making out in their spaceship.
- Implied at the end of the Little Einsteins episode "Knock on Wood", where a male ivory-billed woodpecker (a bird that is believed to be extinct in Real Life) finds a friend...in the form of a female ivory-billed woodpecker.
- 8-Bit Theater lampshades the genetic problems of this trope.
- In Freefall, Florence laments that fourteen individuals do not provide enough genetic diversity for a species to survive, and her main objective in life is to ensure more Bowman's Wolves (at least five hundred) are artificially created before it's too late.
- Parodied in the Sluggy Freelance storyline "28 Geeks Later," when a budding Zombie Apocalypse has taken over a research facility, with several people trapped inside.
Soldier: We have to repopulate the Earth!Zoe: Say what?!?Soldier: Well, we have to repopulate the facility at least. It's the only way we'll outlive them as a species.Zoe: Is everybody here on Crazy-Stupid gas or something?Soldier: This is no way to start a first date!
- This is even funnier if you know that Zoe is the Greek version of the name Eve (they both mean "life").
- In a Faans! story set After the End, Tim and cloned copies of his buddies are all that are left to repopulate the Earth. Much attempt is made for genetic diversity but the kids are naive and eventually a brother falls in love with his half-sister. Of course, Earth is just fine; "Tim" is as much a clone as the others, just with transferred memories.
- In an abandoned The Order of the Stick storyline in the newest book, "Don't Split The Party", Elan tries to set up Lien and Hinjo to breed a new generation of paladins. Lien and Hinjo are understandably annoyed with this because A) Elan obviously does not understand how paladins are created, B) Hinjo outranks Lien and sees it as a breach in behavior, and C) Lien already has a boyfriend, one that isn't a spoon fed nobleman.
- Plus, there were "many" paladins that were away from Azure City the day of the battle... but we don't hear about them much. And many paladins don't work for Azure City.
- Educomix: When Jessica is in the Garden of Edam, she and Adam are the only humans in existence.
- Mentioned in Homestuck. Dirk and Roxy are the only two living humans in a post-apocalyptic future, and Roxy, who has a crush on Dirk, entertains fantasies of the two of them repopulating the species together. Unfortunately for her, Dirk seems to be gay. Fortunately, however, repopulating the Earth in this fashion turns out to not actually be necessary.
- It turns out not to be necessary because, as it turns out, the ectobiology machines are capable of producing more people, and the new world the kids are supposed to make will already be populated once they create it.
Real Life
- Cheetahs. From Wikipedia (with a Scientific American citation):
"The cheetah has unusually low genetic variability and a very low sperm count, which also suffers from low motility and deformed flagellae. Skin grafts between non-related cheetahs illustrate this point in that there is no rejection of the donor skin. It is thought that it went through a prolonged period of inbreeding following a genetic bottleneck during the last ice age."
- The present-day population of cheetahs is low enough to put them into this category again. So it's good to know that this endangered species has survived such a problem in the past.
- Northern Elephant Seals, which had a population that fell to a number somewhere in the 30s during the 1890s but now are no longer endangered (residing in the "least concern" category). However, it should be noted that Male Elephant Seals are able to impregnate up to 50 females every mating season.
- The stereotypical hamster (the golden/Syrian) is actually endangered in the wild. Virtually every domesticated Hamster is descended from a single litter captured in the 1930s.
- Genetic studies trace the native fruit flies of Hawaii to a single gravid female, which was probably blown there by a storm.
- In some areas, humans. Although there was never a colony or town that came entirely from a single couple, there is what is called the "Founder Effect", where having a overly small gene pool increases hereditary traits, usually leading to a higher rate of certain diseases or disorders. For example:
- For centuries, Martha's Vineyard had an abnormally large number of deaf people. This was because up until the 20th century there were rarely any outsiders (read: tourists) showing up, so it was rare for any new genes to be introduced into the pool.
- Polydactyly (having more than 5 fingers) is more common in the Amish than elsewhere, for similar reasons (endogamy means small gene pool).
- 75-80% of Fundamentalist Mormons (not to be confused with the 'regular' Mormons) are related in some way to Joseph Smith or John Barlow. There is also an unusual amount of fumarase deficiency in Mormon populations, the result of Fundamentalists continuing to practice polygamy and endogamy.
- The royal houses of Europe and other places developed recurring issues because of the massive inbreeding in the second millennium. Notable occurrences include hemophilia (through the descendants of Queen Victoria, currently recessed in living population), prognathism (the famous Habsburg lip; culminated in Charles II of Spain, whose jaw was so deformed he couldn't chew), various problems (including club foot, scoliosis, and cleft palates) in the Greek-descended Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt (who preferred brother/sister marriages).
- While outbreeding has been specifically practiced in the last century, other lesser traits are still endemic to certain royal families (large jaw in Spanish, large ears and premature balding in English).
- In 1775, a giant typhoon hit the Micronesian Island of Pingelap. Only 20 people survived. One of them was a carrier for achromatopsia — "total color-blindness". Since achromatopsia is a recessive genetic disorder, over time more and more islanders have inherited the gene, and thus also a greater number have inherited color-blindness. Today, 10% of the population is completely color-blind, and 30% more of the population carries the alleles that could cause their children to be color-blind.
- The modern day inhabitants of Pitcairn Island, all descendants of the Bounty mutineers, are subject to a variety of genetic defects associated with several generations of inbreeding.
- The CCR5-Delta 32 mutation is descended from Europeans during the time of the Black Death. It's theorized that those that had the mutation then were immune to the disease, thus after it passed, a significant number of Europeans left had the mutation. It's almost unknown in African and indigenous American populations, but about 10% of European-descended humans have the mutation. It would be unremarkable now, except that if you have two parents with the mutation, you have immunity to some strains of HIV, for now. (Wikipedia has more under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5#HIV .)
- 5-alpha-reductase deficiency, a very rare genetic condition where a child is born with a female appearance but develops male genitalia at age 12, has a very high incidence rate in areas of the Dominican Republic, where nearly everyone with the condition is descended from a single colonist dating from the days of Columbus.
- The high proportion of people suffering from Huntington's disease (a disease that is hereditary but doesn't have major negative effects until after reproductive age) in the Lake Maracaibo region of Venezuela is believed to be a result of one of the ten or so women who first immigrated there from Europe having the disease.
- Geneticists have posited that all modern day Homo sapiens were descended from one woman dubbed as the Mitochondrial Eve who lived in Africa around 200,000 years ago. But this is really a subversion as all scientists are very certain that she is in no sense of the word comparable to the biblical Eve: she was not the first woman, she is simply the earliest woman to which geneticists can trace, and she just happen to be lucky enough that her daughters were able to produce an unbroken line of descendants to the present day while the offspring of her contemporaries died out in the interim.
- "Died out", in this context, could mean "produced only male offspring for a generation", not actual extinction of the bloodline. As mitochondria are inherited solely through the female line, having sons doesn't do anything to preserve these organelles' genes.
- In fact, the Y-Chromosomal Adam was dated to live about 130,000 years before Eve.
- The Toba catastrophe theory, called so after a volcanic eruption some 75,000 years ago, states that humans themselves suffered a severe population bottleneck (down to some two or ten thousand of humans on Earth) due to aforementioned volcano. Not exactly Adam and Eve Plot, but as close as we ever got.
- There are some (hotly debated) theories that say after this eruption, for a short time there were as few as thirty some-odd breeding human females on the planet. Most estimates put the count as higher, but still considerably low.
- This is touted as an actual newspaper headline, in the vein of the stuff sent in to The Tonight Show With Jay Leno for his "headlines" segment: Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over.note
- Biology classes introducing evolution use this trope to describe Malthusian population growth, explaining how a mated pair of sparrows (or whatever) could hypothetically produce enough descendants to cover the Earth within a shockingly short period of time.
- Similar examples of a pregnant cat or dog producing thousands of descendants are used by animal welfare groups, to encourage spaying or neutering of pets.
- This has happened with more than one endangered species. The California Condor was down to 22 birds by the time all birds left in the species were captured and taken to zoos. There are just over 400 alive today, about half in the wild.
- The population of Przewalski's Horse, the only truly wild horse in the world, is descended from nine horses held in captivity in 1945. 1500 horses are alive today in zoos and in the wild of Mongolia.
- On Île Haute, in the Kerguelen Islands, a male and female mouflon sheep were introduced in 1957. The current population, descended only from that pair, fluctuates between 250 and 700 individuals, and shows far more genetic diversity than had been expected.


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The Transportation Services Office will close at 5 p.m. Dec. 23 and reopen at 6:30 a.m. Jan. 3. Individuals who need to rent pool vehicles during this period must make arrangements no later than noon Dec. 22.
The Garage will close at the end of the afternoon shift Dec. 23 and reopen at 7 a.m. Jan. 3. The Heavy Equipment Garage will be open through the day shift Dec. 23. Emergency service calls should be directed to the Department of Public Safety (DPS), 763-1131.
The fuel stations will be in operation throughout the holiday period. The Baxter Road station is accessible 24 hours per day. Access to the Kipke Drive station can be obtained by calling DPS, 763-1131.
Bus schedules
The Commuter and North Commuter buses will operate on their regular schedules through Dec. 23. Service will resume Jan. 3.
The Nite Owl service will run through Dec. 21 and resume Jan. 5.
Paratransit Transportation will operate through Dec. 22, resuming Jan. 3. University buses operating during the holiday recess will be handicapped accessible.
Northwood and Bursley-Baits bus service will run on the regular published schedule through Dec. 22. On Dec. 23, North Campus will be served by the North Campus route following the Weekend and Holidays Schedule, with the last bus leaving Central Campus at midnight.
The Winter Break Schedule for the North Campus route begins Dec. 24, with the first bus leaving Northwood V at 7:10 a.m. This schedule will run through Dec. 31. The service generally runs at 40-minute intervals, with the last bus leaving Central Campus at 11:30 p.m. On Dec. 24, service will end with the departure of the 6:50 p.m. trip to North Campus. There is no service Dec. 25 or Jan. 1.
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Special Board meeting outlines street project
All chairs were full and people spilled out of the rear doors at the special session of the Hammond Village Board on Monday, Aug. 4. The meeting was called to hear public comments on the 2008 street and sidewalk project.
Construction is set to begin the second week of August. If all goes well, it should be about done by the end of October.
The Village has declared its intention to levy special assessments against property owners to install curb and gutters along Clark, Wolf and Adams streets.
The project will require tearing up the old street to do water and sewer system improvements before laying down a new street. Project engineer Greg Adams said some of the pipes are estimated to be over 50 years old and need updating to prevent leaks and other problems.
The Village will foot the bill, which was bid at $434,195.85. However, homeowners are required to pay the assessment cost of $8 per lineal foot for the curb and gutter portion of the project.
Albrightson Excavating of Woodville will be doing the work on the project. Last year's contractor was McCabe Construction out of Eau Claire.
Engineer Greg Adams said he has been in close contact with the company as well as the utility providers. No electrical outages are expected. Affected residents will be notified of construction plans and timelines through a letter.
More voices rose from the audience when the issue of sidewalks came up for discussion. The sidewalks are being installed along Clark Street. This year's sidewalk is a continuation of the path started last year and will stop at Broadway Street.
Through letters and verbal comments, residents again expressed concerns about losing trees to make room for sidewalks, decreasing property values and rising maintenance costs.
Board President Vince Trudell said they hope to replace as many trees as possible. They discussed having five varieties for the homeowners to chose from. Additionally, they said the lawns would be restored.
Residents argued that their trees are irreplaceable, since many are around 50 feet tall and contribute to the canopy over the street.
A common question for the Board was why the streets needed sidewalks at all. Some residents said that if new sidewalks needed to be installed at all, the best place for them is by the schools. They stated that there are no other plans for this area of town and the sidewalks are unneeded.
Board member Wally Graf agreed with residents and thanked them for coming to the meeting to express their concerns.
Trudell said it is easier to put the sidewalks in at the same time as the streets, rather than tearing up people's lawns twice. He added that putting sidewalks in near the school is definitely a plan in the future, when annual street improvements get to that area.
Although it is certain the walks will be installed, their exact distance from the streets has been discussed. If the sidewalks are placed closer to the road, the residents lose less lawn but the snow becomes an issue and vise versa.
Adams said he will take both the residents and Village's concerns into consideration before laying the path.
The Board also heard concerns about two trailers parked over a sewer main on Wolf Street in the court owned by BB&C LLC. In order to update the main underneath them, the trailers need to be moved. This issue has been going on since 2006, said Board member Steve Peterson.
Spokesman and part owner of the park Dennis Benish suggested that the trailers be moved to do the repairs, but then put back on their spots.
Concerns came from the Board that a precedent would be set if that was to happen.
The audience responded with appeals for the people who live in the two trailers. Elderly and low-income people live in the park and have had their trailers in those spots for decades. Others living in the parks questioned when they would be evicted and who would be paying to destroy their homes.
Board members stressed that they aren't trying to evict people or destroy homes. They decided to allow the trailers to be put back on the property but on a limited timeline. They hope to have paperwork drawn up for it soon.
Additionally, they asked for Benish to submit a plan for the future in which all trailers are moved to be in compliance with zoning requirements.


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Description: In celebration of this season's last Sunday Sessions, MoMA PS1 presents the durational performance, A Lot of Sorrow, by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson. For the original work Kjartansson sought out US rock band, The National, to perform their song, Sorrow, repeatedly in a six-hour live loop. By stretching a single pop song into a day-long tour de force the artist continues his explorations into the potential of repetitive performance to produce sculptural presence within sound. Sorrow found me when I was young, Sorrow waited, sorrow won commences the song by The National, whose music and lyrics repeatedly conjure notions of romantic suffering and contemporary Weltschmerz—themes Kjartansson often uses in his own work employing references as wide-ranging as Ingmar Bergman, the German Romantics, and Elvis Presley. As in all of Kjartansson's performances, the idea behind A Lot of Sorrow is devoid of irony, yet full of humor and emotion. It is another quest to find the comic in the tragic and vice versa.


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1,792 student vacancies in Church schools
The Curia said today that there are 1,792 vacancies for entry into Church Schools in the scholastic year 2012-2013. Applications will be received next month and in February.
In a statement, the Curia said the regulations have been published on its website www.maltadiocese.org/church-schools
Boys whose names were submitted last year for admission to the first year of kindergarten as Other Applicants need not re-apply. The ballot could not be held in this sector last year and therefore last year's applications remain valid for admission to the second year of kindergarten. Parents should check that the names of their sons are featured on the list carried on the website.
As part of a three-year process, there will be vacancies for boys in the fourth year of primary school at De La Salle College, St Paul's Missionary College and the Minor Seminary.
St Augustine College has postponed admissions to its primary school as it awaits Mepa permits for new building.
The vacant places for next year are the following:
First year kinder - 97 boys and 129 girls.
Second year kinder: 105 boys and 276 girls.
First year primary: 355 boys and 231 girls.
Fourth year primary: 145 boys.
First year secondary: 422 boys and 32 girls.
Total: 1,124 boys and 668 girls.
Applications for children from Church homes, siblings, the children of Church school teachers, transfers and schools without continuity will be received on January 9, 10, 16 and 17 at St Elias College, Sta Venera, and the Minor Seminary in Rabat. In grave humanitarian cases involving those categories parents may phone for appointments on January 9, 10 and 11 on 27790077.
In grave humanitarian cases in other categories, parents should phone on the same number on January 30 or 31 or February 1.
Other applicants for the first year of kindergarten can apply on February 16, 17, 23 and 24 at St Angela School, Msida and Zabbar, St Augustine College Pieta, St Francis Msida and Theresa Nuzzo School, Hamrun.
Applicant for Kinder Two can apply on January 23, 24, 30 or 31 at St Angela Msida and Zabbar, St Augustine, Piea, St Joseph School Blata l-Bajda, Stella Maris Balzan, St Aloysius Birkirkara and Theresa Nuzzo, Hamrun.
Applications for Year One of primary school will be received on January 26, 27 or February 2 and 3 at De La Salle, Vittoriosa, St Paul's Missionary Collee, Rabat, t Albert College Velletta, St Eias in Sta Venera, St Michael College, St Venera , Stella Maris Balzan or St Aloysius.
Applications for Year Four of primary school will be received on February 6,7 13 and 14 at St Paul's Missionary College, Rabat, St Albert, Valletta and St Michael Sta Venera.
Applications for secondary school will be open on February 8, 9, 16 and 17 at St Paul's Missionary College, St Albert, St Aloysius and St Michael in Sta Venera.
The Curia warned that children who are admitted in breach of regulations will be liable for expulsion. Procedures to be followed when the rules are broken are currently being drawn up.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.147 Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Date: April 4, 2012 8:02:30 AM EDT
Subject: Orson Welles's Shakespeare Films on the Big Screen This April in Basel
A small cinema in Switzerland, the Stadtkino Basel, is currently screening a retrospective of Orson Welles' work, and they will screen all three of Welles's adaptations of Shakespeare plays from 35mm-prints, (except Macbeth, which will use a 16mm print).
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (FALSTAFF) will be shown on FRI 20.4 2012 15:15, MON 23.4 2012 21:00, and FRI 27.4 2012 20:00 (in English, with French subtitles)
MACBETH will be shown on MON 09.4 2012 15:15, WED 11.4 2012 21:00, and SUN 15.4 2012 13:00 (in English, with French and German subtitles)
THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO: THE MOOR OF VENICE will be shown on THU 05.4 2012 21:00, SUN 08.4 2012 13:30, and WED 18.4 2012 18:30 (in English, with French and German subtitles)
More information (in German) can be found here: http://stadtkino.ch/filmreihe_stadtkino.php?rid=115&m=1
Out of these, Othello is of special interest, as it almost certainly will be the European cut that is screened, with Welles spoken opening titles (This is the version I've seen at the same cinema before, but they couldn't confirm this). This version – unlike the American print – has no synch issues, nor does it suffer from the brutal cuts of the 1991 restoration that we all know from DVD.
Though there have been three DVD-releases of Chimes at Midnight over the last year (and a fourth, hopefully better, is forthcoming – as I understand – from Mr. Bongo Films), there hasn't been a proper release since Studio Canal had to pull their excellent DVD from the market in 2005, and it is only rarely screened due to the complications over the rights. As far as I know, the film has only been screened three times over the last couple of years: at the Locarno Festival in 2005, (when the organisers had to secure special permission from Saltzman's widow Adriana), from an archival DVD in Los Angeles in summer 2010, and last August at a special screening in London (where I missed it). Though there have been rumours that the legal situation is clearing itself – and the count of DVD releases seems to suggest this – this film remains a very rarely screened gem . . . I hope the cinema won't have to cancel the screening, I didn't dare ask whether they secured the rights…
Matthias Heim
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With a bill intended to fine-tune a 2012 background check law, Massachusetts could join the rest of the country in running FBI background checks on teachers and other individuals who work with children.
With a bill intended to fine-tune a 2012 background check law, Massachusetts could join the rest of the country in running FBI background checks on teachers and other individuals who work with children.
The Legislature had intended to accomplish the expanded background checks for child care workers with a bill that cleared both chambers last December and was signed by Gov. Deval Patrick in January. However, there were specific references in the new law that did not match up with federal law, according to Rep. Alice Peisch, the House chairwoman of the Committee on Education.
"The changes basically are just including the correct references to federal statutes that authorize the FBI to do the fingerprint checks," Peisch told the News Service. She said, "The FBI will not do them unless the language is exactly right."
School bus drivers, day care providers and camp counselors are currently required to undergo checks of their state criminal record, according to Peisch, as are school teachers. Once the legislation is honed to comply with federal requirements, Massachusetts will join the rest of the nation in running those child care workers through a national background check.
"I believe we're the only state not to do that," said Peisch, a Wellesley Democrat.
The current law could "conceivably" allow employers to miss a troubling conviction in another state, including for crimes that would qualify someone as a sex offender, according to House Minority Leader Brad Jones, a North Reading Republican. Jones, who pushed the legislation along with Peisch last session, said the law is geared toward employment relationships, as opposed to volunteers who might still need to undergo state background checks.
The bill (S 1839) cleared the House Committee on Ways and Means in an email poll that ended Fridayafternoon, with 17 members voting in favor of it, and one member reserving his or her rights. A Ways and Means aide said the bill is likely to reach the House floor within the next month.
"I haven't heard of anybody who has an issue with it," Jones said. He said, "Hopefully it's pretty straightforward."
The law that the bill seeks to correct was passed near the end of the last session, during informal sessions where no roll call votes are taken, no debates are undertaken and any member can block the body from taking an action if they attend the session and raise an objection.
Though the bill signed into law in January attempted to plug the state's education officials into a federal criminal database, state regulators discovered earlier this year that the law would not suffice to grant access to the FBI's records.
The FBI does not "comment on potential legislation," so state officials did not know that last year's bill was insufficient until state officials attempted to implement it, Peisch said.


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Aalto, Finland (SPX) Nov 16, 2012
Researchers at Aalto University, Finland have developed a method for producing lithium batteries that is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than previously used methods.
This new process has succeeded in replacing the harmful methylpyrrolidone (NMP) solvent, which is traditionally used in the manufacturing of electrodes, with water. Removing this harmful solvent from the production process makes the production of batteries simpler and safer for employees.
Production costs of batteries can be decreased by as much as 5 percent. Some of this savings comes from the reduced cost of transporting and recycling harmful chemicals and a lower risk of exposure to employees.
- Improving production methods is important as the use of batteries is rapidly increasing around the world. The increase in electric car use in particular will strongly increase the global demand and production of batteries, says Tanja Kallio, Adjunct professor at Aalto University.
A prerequisite for giving up the harmful solvent used in batteries was changing the binding agent to a water-soluble one.
Finding the new binding agent, acrylic S020, was difficult because it not only had to be water-soluble but also chemically, electrochemically and mechanically ideal for this purpose.
Recently, Finnish Aalto University has achieved many significant results in battery research.
Earlier this year, researchers found a way to significantly improve the durability of Lithium-ion batteries by covering the electrodes of lithium iron phosphate batteries with extremely thin protective layers, and by increasing the potential of lithium iron phosphate used as a positive electrode by doping.
An article on the study has just been published in Journal of Power Sources. Aalto University conducted this study along with University of Oulu/Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, SPECIFIC, Sachtleben, Sun Chemicals and Walki. The research project has been funded by Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and the Academy of Finland.
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TNT has greenlit 10 episodes for a series based on The Librarians franchise, slated to air in late 2014. The TV movies told the story of a group of extra special librarians who live beneath the Metropolitan Public Library in New York and safeguard mystical relics from forces of evil by slapping them with outrageous overdue fees. The plot is a messy stew of Indiana Jones, National Treasure, and Hell Boy …but the product is less than the sum of its parts.
Noah Wyle (Falling Skies, ER) will reprise his role as the big cheese librarian and will also executive produce. Rebecca Romijn will play Eve Baird, a sexy counter-terrorism agent who's in charge of protecting the librarians. Shouldn't be too hard since she's fresh off the (canceled) show King & Maxwell, where she played a sexy former secret service agent. Potayto/Potahto. Other cast members include: Christian Kane (Leverage), Lindy Booth (Dawn of the Dead), John Kim (Neighbors), Matt Frewer (Orphan Black, Falling Skies), and John Larroquette (Deception). Also appearing from the movie trilogy will be Bob Newhart (The Big Bang Theory) and Jane Curtin (3rd Rock from the Sun).
TNT gives this very detailed plot synopsis, if you want to know more:
The Librarians centers on an ancient organization hidden beneath the Metropolitan Public Library dedicated to protecting an unknowing world from the secret, magical reality hidden all around. This group solves impossible mysteries, fights supernatural threats and recovers powerful artifacts from around the world. Among the artifacts housed in the Library are the Ark of the Covenant, the Spear of Destiny, the Judas Chalice and Excalibur, to name a few. Only a person with special skills could be responsible for collecting and protecting these artifacts, and more importantly, for preventing them from falling into the wrong hands. For the past 10 years, Flynn Carsen (Wyle) has served as the Librarian. Prior to taking the job, he was a bookish nerd with 22 academic degrees and absolutely no social skills. As Librarian, however, he managed to use his extraordinary knowledge, successfully recovering ancient artifacts and, in the process, saving the world from unspeakable evil on more than one occasion. Over the last decade he's gone from bookworm to dashing swashbuckler, one of the secret heroes of the hidden world. As great as Flynn is, the job of Librarian has become more than one person can handle. To aid him in his duties, the Library has recruited four people from around the world, including Eve Baird (Romijn), a highly skilled counter-terrorism agent who is responsible for protecting the group and keeping them all alive; Jake Stone (Kane), an Oklahoma oil worker with an IQ of 190 and an encyclopedic knowledge of art history; Cassandra (Booth), a quirky young woman with the special gift of auditory and sensory hallucinations linked to memory retrieval, known as synesthesia; and Ezekiel Jones (Kim), a master of new technologies and aficionado of old classic crimes who enjoys playing the role of international man of mystery. Overseeing the new team of Librarians is the somewhat cantankerous Jenkins (Larroquette), an expert in ancient lore who has been working out of the Library's branch office for longer than anyone knows. Together, they must tangle with many adversaries, chief of whom is the Serpent Brotherhood, an ancient cult led by the mysterious immortal Dulaque (Frewer).


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Mobile finance is about to boom (some say we're already there). You may have dabbled a little with your own bank's mobile app for easy money transfers and to check balances. Or you might be quite savvy with Google Wallet and PayPal on your phone. There are a myriad of new apps to help you… Read More →
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They're not here yet, but expect mobile payments to change the way we pay If your wallet feels thinner in the upcoming months, blame your cell phone, not the down economy. Mobile payments, also called mobile money and mobile wallet, are the future of commerce. If they haven't already, mobile payments will soon revolutionize the… Read More →


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