Pith Number

pith:SHJYUSTV

pith:2015:SHJYUSTVVYSWU54OS7KVUI7Z25

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Similarities as Evidence for Common Ancestry -- A Likelihood Epistemology

Elliott Sober, Mike Steel

arxiv:1501.04665 v1 · 2015-01-19 · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SHJYUSTVVYSWU54OS7KVUI7Z25}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:29:02.278392Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

91d38a4a75ae256a778e97d55a23f9d769dd196f6d5f94ebc6290d6ebcbc2c16

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.04665 · arxiv_version: 1501.04665v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.04665 · pith_short_12: SHJYUSTVVYSW · pith_short_16: SHJYUSTVVYSWU54O · pith_short_8: SHJYUSTV

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/SHJYUSTVVYSWU54OS7KVUI7Z25 \
  | 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: 91d38a4a75ae256a778e97d55a23f9d769dd196f6d5f94ebc6290d6ebcbc2c16

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6241398dd8c0fb18c59e4be60ad5d13ec7fc2070f0668d8fe0a45afc03cb9fe2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-19T22:52:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "298b1f5ddd705a62f7c858fb6c054a54003df68049ae0ff778a3c838e4335210"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.04665",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}