Disco also proves to be a laboratory of innovation second only to the American space program, yielding early antecedents of such present-day musical devices as the mash-up and the 18-minute-long dance remix.

Here, one of the diary's early antecedents, the ship's log, receives treatment vivid enough to be worthy of a novel.

One of the earliest antecedents to the modern speech bubble were the "speech scrolls", wispy lines that connected first person speech to the mouths of the speakers in Mesoamerican art.

This practice was first legislated in the Rule of St. Benedict in the 6th century, but has earlier antecedents.

Glaessner also did early work on the classification of the pre-Cambrian lifeforms now known as the Ediacaran biota, which he proposed were the early antecedents of modern lifeforms.

There were perfumed stocks rolled and pressed in special moulds, perhaps the earliest antecedents of present-day lipsticks and solid deodorants.

The Clunes Miners' Association is one of the earliest antecedents of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.

The practice of consulting has several early antecedents.

Jim, this research--if I'm understanding Ael correctly--had its earliest antecedents on Earth in some very primitive mind experiments concerning planaria.

Using a process, called the "Fragmenta Vitae", the person is enabled to become aware of the current emotional triggers and helped to access their early antecedents recalling childhood stories with the same emotional content.