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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- What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditions (2023)
- Animal Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Age related variation of health markers in Asian elephants (2022)
- Experimental Gerontology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Intention to have a second child, family support and actual fertility behavior in current China: An evolutionary perspective (2022)
- American Journal of Human Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants (2022)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe (2022)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Multiple handlers, several owner changes and short relationship lengths affect horses’ responses to novel object tests (2022)
- Applied Animal Behaviour Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Neighborhood disadvantage, greenness and population density as predictors of breastfeeding practices: a population cohort study from Finland (2022)
- Journal of Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sex-specific body mass ageing trajectories in adult Asian elephants (2022)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sex-specific links between the social landscape and faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in semi-captive Asian elephants (2022)
- General and Comparative Endocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Socio-cultural similarity with host population rather than ecological similarity predicts success and failure of human migrations (2022)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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