precursor, pioneer, offshoot, outgrowth, vanguard, incarnation, stepping stone, heyday, exemplar, advent, beginnings, trailblazing, apotheosis, embodiment, nineties, progenitor, touchstone, proto, parlance, cornerstone, genesis, harbinger, groundbreaker, forbearer, trailblazers, spartacist, granddaddy, anachronism, brainchild, crucible, prelude, relic, eighties, fully fledged, founding, launching pad, era, mainstay, throwback, codifier, forebear, seventies, personification, infancy, pinnacle, model, univac, bridgehead, prime mover, bulwark, circa, fountainhead, sixties, doyen, reminiscent, antithesis, crown jewel, steppingstone, founders, centerpiece, baader meinhof gang, eponym, revolutionary, kamerun, trendsetter, forefather, ubermensch, holy grail, abbreviation, lynchpin, hideyoshi toyotomi, epitome, version, keystone, misnomer, counterweight, hotbed, figurehead, catalyst, herald, modern, emblem, archetype, william ewart gladstone, fertile crescent, death knell, hallmark, powerhouse, descendent, portent, birthplace, part, springboard, revivification, adjunct, prefiguring, byword, bolshevism, ascendence, acronym, prototype, zenith, forerunners, predecessor, harbingers, beginning, antecedent, inheritor, originators, precedent, touchstones, contemporary, exemplars, originator, area, called, dependant, discussion, neighbour, periphery, savings, smaller, smallest, socalled, 2l, acidotic, adapting, adjacent, affected, aggregated, aggression, ail, angulated, beneficiary

predecessor

alchemy, amphioxus, anticipate, john the baptist, lancelet, st. john the baptist, torpedo-boat destroyer

human, indication, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, temporal relation

antecedent, harbinger, herald, precursor