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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- Fitness Consequences of Advanced Ancestral Age over Three Generations in Humans (2015)
- PLoS ONEProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Stress and body condition are associated with climate and demography in Asian elephantsAre elder siblings helpers or competitors? Antagonistic fitness effects of sibling interactions in humans (2015)
- Conservation PhysiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Alloparenting in humans: fitness consequences of aunts and uncles on survival in historical Finland (2014)
- Behavioral Ecology
- An evolutionary approach to change of status-fertility relationship in human fertility transition (2014)
- Behavioral Ecology
- Associations between family size and offspring education depend on aspects of parental personalityBirth seasonality and calf mortality in a large population of Asian elephants (2014)
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Ecological variation in wealth-fertility relationships in Mongolia: the 'central theoretical problem of sociobiology' not a problem after all? (2014)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology
- 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)
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- A trade-off between having many sons and shorter maternal post-reproductive survival in pre-industrial Finland (2013)
- Biology Letters
- (2013) Mumby HS, Courtiol A, Mar KU, Lummaa V
- Changes in selection on height and BMI during the demographic transition: the case of rural Gambia.The Demographic Transition Influences Variance in Fitness and Selection on Height and BMI in Rural Gambia (2013)
- Climatic variation and age-specific survival in Asian elephants from Myanmar (2013)
- Ecology
- Evolution of sex differences in lifespan and aging: Causes and constraints (2013)
- BioEssays
- Influence of early-life nutrition on mortality and reproductive success during a subsequent famine in a preindustrial population (2013)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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- Current Biology
- THE EFFECT OF MATERNAL AGE AND REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY ON OFFSPRING SURVIVAL AND LIFETIME REPRODUCTION IN PREINDUSTRIAL HUMANS (2013)
- Evolution
- Facial attractiveness and fertility in populations with low levels of modern birth control (2012)
- Evolution and Human Behavior
- Intergenerational effects of maternal birth season on offspring size in rural Gambia2012
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Maternal Risk of Breeding Failure Remained Low throughout the Demographic Transitions in Fertility and Age at First Reproduction in Finland (2012) Liu JH, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V
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