>In most families the last names of the husband and wife are the same (nowadays they are sometimes different), so it's actually very common practice.

Until fairly recently in Hungary it was common to refer to the wife using both the name and the surname of the husband, with a suffix, so mrs John Smith was Kovács Jánosné (-né being that suffix) and you'd never know what the lady's name really was. Didn't see much of that in the databases, but there was more in the obituaries.

>I think to call somebody by a name is an old fashioned way to say "to give a name". In German this expression is still in use. So when you had a child you "call the name of the child Joseph", because the name was used to address someone.

To "call by name" is what we say as well, and quite common in other languages AFAIK. To "call the name something" it a ridiculous construction I never heard before.

>Because Adam and Eve were just born, if you will, they did not have a name before that. So the text refers to them as Man and Woman before that. They shared the same pool of genes because Eve was made from the genes of the bone marrow of Adam. Most people thought this was not scientific, but now they do know that it is scientifically possible to clone a person, and the best source for that would be the bone marrow. That's why they are now so fascinated about the finding of the Mammoth's bone marrow.

And was the lady mammoth's name given a name already? :)