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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- Long-term trends in wild-capture and population dynamics point to an uncertain future for captive elephants (2019)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal age at birth shapes offspring life-history trajectory across generations in long-lived Asian elephants (2019)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Self sacrifice and kin psychology in war: threats to family predict decisions to volunteer for a women's paramilitary organization (2019)
- Evolution and Human Behavior
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Whether to have a second child or not? An integrative approach to women's reproductive decision-making in current China (2019)
- Evolution and Human Behavior
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A Simple, Practical Method for Measurement of Fat in Milk, Applied to Mid- to Late-Lactating Working Elephants in Myanmar (2018)
- Novel Techniques in Nutrition and Food Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants (2018)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Early-life environment and differences in costs of reproduction in a preindustrial human population (2018)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of female reproductive competition on birth rate and reproductive scheduling in a historical human population (2018)
- Behavioral Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Grandmotherhood across the demographic transition (2018)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Limited support for the X-linked grandmother hypothesis in pre-industrial Finland (2018)
- Biology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sex differences in adult mortality rate mediated by early-life environmental conditions (2018)
- Ecology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection (2018)
- Nature Reviews Genetics
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Changes in Length of Grandparenthood in Finland 1790-1959 (2017)
- Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Is bigger better? The relationship between size and reproduction in female Asian elephants (2017)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia (2017)
- Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Parasite-associated mortality in a long-lived mammal: Variation with host age, sex, and reproduction (2017)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Parent-offspring conflict over family size in current China (2017)
- American Journal of Human Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effects of resource availability and the demographic transition on the genetic correlation between number of children and grandchildren in humans (2017)
- Heredity
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - What have humans done for evolutionary biology? Contributions from genes to populations (2017)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Costly reproductive competition between co-resident females in humans (2016)
- Behavioral Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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