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;
- 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
- 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
- Fitness Consequences of Advanced Ancestral Age over Three Generations in Humans (2015)
- PLoS ONEConservation Physiology
- Stress and body condition are associated with climate and demography in Asian elephants (2015)
- Alloparenting in humans: fitness consequences of aunts and uncles on survival in historical Finland (2014)
- Behavioral Ecology
- 2014
- Behavioral EcologyPersonality and Individual Differences
- Associations between family size and offspring education depend on aspects of parental personalityEcological variation in wealth-fertility relationships in Mongolia: the 'central theoretical problem of sociobiology' not a problem after all? (2014)
- (2014)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 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
- 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



