Pith Number

pith:W26C7WSR

pith:2017:W26C7WSR37C6U6V44WIAFQK6QX

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The Creative Process of Cultural Evolution

Liane Gabora

arxiv:1704.05056 v2 · 2017-04-16 · q-bio.PE · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W26C7WSR37C6U6V44WIAFQK6QX}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:20.116158Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6bc2fda51dfc5ea7abce59002c15e85df10a8aaa852d8270d519b136aef0a4b

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.05056 · arxiv_version: 1704.05056v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.05056 · pith_short_12: W26C7WSR37C6 · pith_short_16: W26C7WSR37C6U6V4 · pith_short_8: W26C7WSR

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/W26C7WSR37C6U6V44WIAFQK6QX \
  | 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: b6bc2fda51dfc5ea7abce59002c15e85df10a8aaa852d8270d519b136aef0a4b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "afaacc93a67be65c25b3268f0df73f771bb84f00594168a2ae780b2ea8742ac9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.PE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-16T21:11:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c38783d93c53132e70a97bb4db30c8ce292377c83b587ef835c31aa6946cc73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.05056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}