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;
- A Simple, Practical Method for Measurement of Fat in Milk, Applied to Mid- to Late-Lactating Working Elephants in Myanmar (2018)
- Novel Techniques in Nutrition and Food Science
- Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants (2018)
- Nature Communications
- Early-life environment and differences in costs of reproduction in a preindustrial human population (2018)
- PLoS ONE
- Effects of female reproductive competition on birth rate and reproductive scheduling in a historical human population (2018)
- Behavioral Ecology
- Grandmotherhood across the demographic transition (2018)
- PLoS ONE
- Limited support for the X-linked grandmother hypothesis in pre-industrial Finland (2018)
- Biology Letters
- Sex differences in adult mortality rate mediated by early-life environmental conditions (2018)
- Ecology Letters
- The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection (2018)
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- Changes in Length of Grandparenthood in Finland 1790-1959 (2017)
- Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
- Is bigger better? The relationship between size and reproduction in female Asian elephants (2017)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology



