Firstly, all innovations comprise an advancement on their predecessors, if indeed there were predecessors, but there comes a point when the technology of the day reaches a point of stasis.
There have been predecessors, but Rounderbum, which says it's done over $1 million in sales since 2015, is perhaps the most visible male butt-enhancing underwear brand in history.
Semantic spreadsheets, that is, spreadsheets that contain and compute over complex symbolic structures, are a more novel concept, but there are some predecessors.
Unlike its somewhat dingy predecessor, here there are brushed saffron walls, stripy banquettes, high ceilings, and capacious windows.
Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov As with the rest of the cast, Yelchin was allowed to choose what elements there were from their predecessor's performances.
Rabbits, floppy eared and fluffy tailed, have played a disproportionately large role in children's literature, and there are many storybook predecessors of Roger to choose from.
There are several vivid predecessors in this genre who could have indicated ways of blowing the dust off sermons in stone: Henry Adams's classic "Mont-St.-Michel and Chartres" or Allan Temko's even more comparable study of Notre-Dame in Paris, not to mention Ruskin's "Stones of Venice".
But then, there were no predecessors and no road map and no medical advice and no psychological advice.
NHS England claims to have only half the number of managers in senior roles that there were in predecessor organisations before the April reorganisation, which saw many top bosses paid off.
The result was a 'communist clause' in West German legislation on reparations, for which there was no predecessor in the reparation legislation of the American-occupied zone of August 1949.
