Pith Number

pith:IV3QKJEM

pith:2014:IV3QKJEMTNOMMRH4TBFCEAWKHZ

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Can Sol's Explanation for the Evolution of Animal Innovation Account for Human Innovation?

Apara Ranjan, Liane Gabora

arxiv:1409.4700 v2 · 2014-09-16 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IV3QKJEMTNOMMRH4TBFCEAWKHZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:40:37.033776Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

457705248c9b5cc644fc984a2202ca3e6cff5a0769e65bd8d1c080e15cf57f6c

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.4700 · arxiv_version: 1409.4700v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.4700 · pith_short_12: IV3QKJEMTNOM · pith_short_16: IV3QKJEMTNOMMRH4 · pith_short_8: IV3QKJEM

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IV3QKJEMTNOMMRH4TBFCEAWKHZ \
  | 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: 457705248c9b5cc644fc984a2202ca3e6cff5a0769e65bd8d1c080e15cf57f6c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f1541a0d667bfc4d12456d78de0b23a96d4deb4dec6fe7533e6d9279e8f9e5e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-16T16:56:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58994650dbed8efcf744fb8a1c7e36e4d0024a2c271ad772cf6334bfdbb16afd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.4700",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}