primogenitor
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Hinton had been working on neural networks since his undergraduate days at Cambridge in the late 1960s, and he is seen as the intellectual primogenitor of the contemporary field.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
At around the 18-minute mark in this movie rosily extolling the virtues of the American highway, there are about 30 seconds of footage from the primogenitor of the genre.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2015
This tiny, nameless primogenitor of all living matter may have used some primitive kind of photosynthesis to reproduce itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
