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;
- What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditionsNeighborhood disadvantage, greenness and population density as predictors of breastfeeding practices: a population cohort study from Finland (2023)
- Animal CognitionJournal of Nutrition
- Age related variation of health markers in Asian elephants (2022)
- Experimental Gerontology
- Intention to have a second child, family support and actual fertility behavior in current China: An evolutionary perspective (2022)
- American Journal of Human Biology
- Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants (2022)
- Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyGeneral and Comparative Endocrinology
- Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe (2022)
- Nature Communications
- Multiple handlers, several owner changes and short relationship lengths affect horses’ responses to novel object tests (2022)
- Applied Animal Behaviour Science
- (2022)
- Sex-specific body mass ageing trajectories in adult Asian elephants (2022)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- Sex-specific links between the social landscape and faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in semi-captive Asian elephants (2022)
- 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



