Virpi Lummaa
Professor
Department of Biology virpi.lummaa@utu.fi +358 29 450 2097 +358 50 438 2044 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 242 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2128-7587 |
Areas of expertise
Evolutionary ecology and genetics; human life history; natural selection; evolutionary biology of Asian elephants; ageing; senescence; behavioural ecology; lifespan; reproductive success; endocrinology; health; sex differences; socio-econimic differences;
Evolutionary ecology and genetics; human life history; natural selection; evolutionary biology of Asian elephants; ageing; senescence; behavioural ecology; lifespan; reproductive success; endocrinology; health; sex differences; socio-econimic differences;
Publications 
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- Early-life reproduction is associated with increased mortality risk but enhanced lifetime fitness in pre-industrial humans. (2015)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Elephants born in the high stress season have faster reproductive ageing (2015) Mumby HS, Mar KU, Hayward AD, Htut W, Htut-Aung Y, Lummaa V
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fitness Consequences of Advanced Ancestral Age over Three Generations in Humans (2015)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Stress and body condition are associated with climate and demography in Asian elephants (2015)
- Conservation Physiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Alloparenting in humans: fitness consequences of aunts and uncles on survival in historical Finland (2014)
- Behavioral Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - An evolutionary approach to change of status-fertility relationship in human fertility transition (2014)
- Behavioral Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Associations between family size and offspring education depend on aspects of parental personality (2014)
- Personality and Individual Differences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ecological variation in wealth-fertility relationships in Mongolia: the 'central theoretical problem of sociobiology' not a problem after all? (2014)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Increased Mortality Exposure within the Family Rather than Individual Mortality Experiences Triggers Faster Life-History Strategies in Historic Human Populations (2014) Stormer C, Lummaa V
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effect of socio-economic status and food availability on first birth interval in a pre-industrial human population (2014)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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