Charles Duhigg

General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.

American Journalist

Adrian Pasdar

What you would call a 'lead,' I've always considered a supporting part, and what people would call 'supporting parts,' I've considered leads. In a way, I look at it in reverse, because supporting parts - when they're done correctly - are the ones that are progenitors for storylines, to move forward.

American Actor

Jeffrey Toobin

Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

American Lawyer

Rick Tumlinson

Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our very beginnings. It is the core reason our progenitors wandered forth from the first primordial valleys in search of more room, better hunting, or more fertile soil.

American Businessman

Peter R. Grant

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

American Scientist

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.

Brian Cox

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.

Actor

William Robertson Smith

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

Scottish Scientist

Use 'progenitor' to highlight a historical connection or influence on present entities.

Historical Relevance

'Progenitor' is often used in biology to discuss origins of species or cells.

Biological Context

It usually refers to something that existed in the past, not current individuals or entities.

Not Contemporary

'Progenitor' emphasizes the role of an individual as the first to develop a concept or movement.

Original Thinker

Use 'progenitor' when explaining who or what caused something significant to be created or initiated.

Causal Relationship

In creative fields, 'progenitor' can refer to a ground-breaking design or product that inspires future creations.

Design Influence

'Progenitor' may imply a blueprint that was ahead of its time or innovative when it was created.

Technically Advanced

In arts and design, 'progenitor' refers to the original work from which copies are made.

Original Source

Use 'progenitor' to connect architectural designs to their historical models.

Architectural Ancestry

 But a series of recent discoveries has revealed that adult brains actually do continue to produce new cells in at least three specialized locations. This process, known as neurogenesis, involves dedicated brain cells, called neural stem cells and progenitor cells,

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 and the imagination -- the imagination as we know it -- came into being when our species descended from our progenitor, Homo erectus, and, infused with consciousness, began a journey that would carry it to every corner of the habitable world.