Primogenitor used in a sentence

Primogenitor in a sentence as a noun

Since ribosomes are critical machinery, but not usually considered the primogenitor, this up-ends mainstream thinking in a chicken/egg sort of way. Edit: here's the key part of the article regarding that: > Under this radically new view of the origin of life, genes only became independent of ribosomes because ribosomes began using them to gain an advantage over their rivals—while traditional theory says that ribosomes were only created and refined because they gave genes a more efficient way of affecting their surroundings and outcompeting their rivals.