Search Results - "Hsü, Kenneth J"
-
1
Evolved developmental homeostasis disturbed in LB1 from Flores, Indonesia, denotes Down syndrome and not diagnostic traits of the invalid species Homo floresiensis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-08-2014)“…Human skeletons from Liang Bua Cave, Flores, Indonesia, are coeval with only Homo sapiens populations worldwide and no other previously known hominins. We…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
2
Rare events in earth history include the LB1 human skeleton from Flores, Indonesia, as a developmental singularity, not a unique taxon
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-08-2014)“…The original centrally defining features of “ Homo floresiensis ” are based on bones represented only in the single specimen LB1. Initial published values of…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
3
Reply to Westaway et al.: Mandibular misrepresentations fail to support the invalid species Homo floresiensis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-02-2015)Get full text
Journal Article -
4
Geophysical, Archaeological, and Historical Evidence Support a Solar-Output Model for Climate Change
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-11-2000)“…Although the processes of climate change are not completely understood, an important causal candidate is variation in total solar output. Reported cycles in…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
5
Are Chronons the Elementary Particles in Space and Time?
Published in TAO : Terrestrial, atmospheric, and oceanic sciences (01-06-1996)“…In the search for a physical theory of time, I proposed that chronons are elementary particles of time (Hsu, 1992); natural phenomena which seem to be…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
6
History of the Mediterranean salinity crisis
Published in Nature (London) (02-06-1977)Get full text
Journal Article -
7
Gaia and the Mediterranean Sea
Published in Scientia marina (30-12-2001)“…The Earth is a self-organizing system liking a living organism. Lovelock proposed Gaia as a metaphor to designate the check and balance of terrestrial…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
8
-
9
Reply to Westaway et al: Mandibular misrepresentations fail to support the invalid speciesHomo floresiensis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-02-2015)Get full text
Journal Article -
10
Could Global Warming be a Blessing for Mankind?
Published in TAO : Terrestrial, atmospheric, and oceanic sciences (01-09-1996)“…Accepting the scientific evidence that the increased carbon-dioxide in atmosphere, introduced mainly by burning fossil fuels since the industrial revolution,…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
11
Terrestrial catastrophe caused by cometary impact at the end of Cretaceous
Published in Nature (London) (22-05-1980)Get full text
Journal Article -
12
Sun, climate, hunger, and mass migration
Published in Science China. Earth sciences (01-10-1998)“…Paleoclimatic studies indicate four epochs of global cooling during the last 4 000 years, i. e. during the few centuries before and after 2000 BC, 800 BC, 400…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
13
The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary and geochemical perturbations
Published in Nature (London) (20-02-1986)Get full text
Journal Article -
14
In Search of a Physical Theory of Time
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-11-1992)“…The variable time considered in science is a measurement. The relation of time to other variables is expressed in rates, and the variable time is seldom…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
15
Mountain-building
Published in Endeavour (New series) (01-01-1996)“…Things in nature, animals, trees, mountains, etc., all have been built according to a plan -a Bauplan. Students of tectonics study mountains to reconstruct…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
16
'Strangelove ocean' before the Cambrian explosion
Published in Nature (London) (01-01-1985)“…If the Cambrian Explosion were preceded by a mass mortality (or by a mass extinction), such an event should leave a record in the form of geochemical…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
17
Catastrophic extinctions and the inevitability of the improbable
Published in Journal of the Geological Society (01-09-1989)“…The Earth as we know it today has been shaped by natural processes of the past. Uniformitarianism emphasizes the cumulative effects of processes operating at…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
18
Mass Mortality and its Environmental and Evolutionary Consequences
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-04-1982)“…The latest Mesozoic and earliest Tertiary sediments at Deep Sea Drilling Project site 524 provide an amplified record of environmental and biostratographic…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
19
Fractal Geometry of Music
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-02-1990)“…Music critics have compared Bach's music to the precision of mathematics. What "mathematics" and what "precision" are the questions for a curious scientist…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
20
Self-Similarity of the "1/f Noise" Called Music
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-04-1991)“…Suggestions have been made that computer musicians should attempt to compose fractal music, and questions have been raised whether there is such a thing as…”
Get full text
Journal Article