Pith Number

pith:K73TY5F3

pith:2013:K73TY5F3U3O6JAXFMPT2QFICBM

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A Quantum Model of Exaptation: Incorporating Potentiality into Evolutionary Theory

Eric O. Scott, Liane Gabora, Stuart Kauffman

arxiv:1310.0558 v1 · 2013-10-02 · q-bio.PE · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K73TY5F3U3O6JAXFMPT2QFICBM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:11:34.876548Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57f73c74bba6dde482e563e7a815020b295835ca058dae90bddccb97b3af42cc

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.0558 · arxiv_version: 1310.0558v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.0558 · pith_short_12: K73TY5F3U3O6 · pith_short_16: K73TY5F3U3O6JAXF · pith_short_8: K73TY5F3

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/K73TY5F3U3O6JAXFMPT2QFICBM \
  | 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: 57f73c74bba6dde482e563e7a815020b295835ca058dae90bddccb97b3af42cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "291c55e75561631499efb1f79130289c69c1b4f242b2045bced01e84145e04ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-02T03:35:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a29aa5ea378bfca48e21c451435ceb94abf3c01b28215747c98164a9a356540"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.0558",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}