The name Eve may mean more than just living, but also symbiosis. At this point in the story, Adam and Eve go from representing our common decent with single celled organisms to clonal and then later as multi-celled organisms. Before Genesis 5, Adam is not even properly named, the word for Adam just meaning “mankind”, but God called “their name Adam” when they became multicellular, living together as one flesh.
- Gen 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.