Pith Number

pith:BFWDBKIT

pith:2016:BFWDBKITNI2RSFTIZ26S2RS3B5

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Simplification, innateness, and the absorption of meaning from context: how novelty arises from gradual network evolution

Adi Livnat

arxiv:1605.03440 v2 · 2016-05-11 · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BFWDBKITNI2RSFTIZ26S2RS3B5}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:13:46.966089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

096c30a9136a35191668cebd2d465b0f532940fa390e02cfcab8a8ec89fbb77c

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.03440 · arxiv_version: 1605.03440v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.03440 · pith_short_12: BFWDBKITNI2R · pith_short_16: BFWDBKITNI2RSFTI · pith_short_8: BFWDBKIT

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BFWDBKITNI2RSFTIZ26S2RS3B5 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 096c30a9136a35191668cebd2d465b0f532940fa390e02cfcab8a8ec89fbb77c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bca46e9c2a3d55708527b0c3c05f653af73556f8cd4d4bc453711e8fc075254d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-11T13:44:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "504d6e0e53b6057b73a59846739016617249d7c269a1e0309c3e307642a8ba04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.03440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}