Virpi Lummaa
Professor
Department of Biology virpi.lummaa@utu.fi +358 29 450 2097 +358 50 438 2044 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku : 242 : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2128-7587 |
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;
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- Age- and sex-dependent associations between the number of older siblings and early-life survival in pre-industrial humans (2025)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Close and more distant relatives are associated with child mortality risk in historical Finland (2025)
- Evolutionary Human Sciences
- Mothers facing greater environmental adversity experience increased costs of reproduction (2025)
- Science Advances
- Socioeconomic Differences in Vaccination Coverage After a Mandatory Vaccination Law, 1855-1900 (2025)
- JAMA Network Open
- The spatial distribution of pertussis, but not measles or smallpox, in pre-industrial Finland matches dialects (2025)
- iScience
- Tusks, testosterone and personality in male Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) (2025)
- Royal Society Open Science
- Asian elephant calf physiology and mahout perspectives during taming in Myanmar (2024)
- Royal Society Open Science
- Enhancing Stress Assessment in Sledge Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): A Pilot Study on Infrared Thermal Imaging and its Opportunities for Advancement as a Welfare Assessment Tool (2024)
- Animal Behavior and Cognition
- Extracting Social Connections from Finnish Karelian Refugee Interviews Using LLMs (2024)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- Fertility resilience varies by socioeconomic status and sex : Historical trends in childlessness across 150 years (2024)
- iScience
- Grandmother effects over the Finnish demographic transition (2024)
- Evolutionary Human Sciences
- Menopause has not evolved as a general trait in mammals: A response to ‘Do mammals have menopause?’ (2024)
- bioRxiv
- Milk metabolite composition of a semi-captive population of Asian elephants (2024)
- Royal Society Open Science
- No evidence of early life resource pulse effects on age‐specific variation in survival, reproduction and body mass of female Siberian flying squirrels (2024)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Reply to: Maternal capacity, twinning and fertility: the last birth matters (2024)
- Nature Communications
- Testosterone variation in a semi-captive population of Asian elephants in Myanmar (2024)
- Conservation Physiology
- First report of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) response to human-given cues (2023)
- Journal of Comparative Psychology
- Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns (2023)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population (2023)
- Behavioral Ecology
- Kolmen sukupolven perheet ja resurssikilpailu esiteollisessa Suomessa (2023)
- Väestöliitto : Tietovuoto
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