Genesis 2:19

"Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name."  Genesis 2:19

Here is man's first job, to name all the living creatures God created.  God even brought them to the man, so he didn't have to go search them out. 

The Qbible has translates the word "man" as "Adam" for the first time here, although, this is the same word used previously just translated as "man."  Adam means human being (either an individual or the species-mankind).  So by calling the first man "Adam," we're just calling him "man."