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Jenni Pettay
FT

- Senior Researcher,
INVEST Research Flagship Centre (Faculty of Social Sciences)
- Docent,
Department of Biology (Faculty of Science)

jeelko@utu.fi

Vesilinnantie 5

Turku

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7768-5883

Areas of expertise

Evolutionary ecology, behavioral ecology, life history theory, kin selection, reproductive conflict, human evolutionary evolution

Biography

Research

I have been interested in various topics related to fitness
variation in humans. For example, how environment affect selection on
life-history traits and how social environment and presence of kin affects
reproductive behaviour. I have been using pedigree data from historical Finnish
populations collected from church book records.

Publications

5 of 5

Food and fitness: Associations between crop yields and life-history traits in a longitudinally monitored pre-industrial human populationNatural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population2012
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Hayward A, Holopainen J, Pettay J, Lummaa V
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
(2012)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Courtiol A, Pettay JE, Jokela M, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Serial monogamy increases reproductive success in men but not in women (2010)
- Behavioral Ecology
Jokela M, Rotkirch A, Rickard IJ, Pettay J, Lummaa V
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women (2008)
- EvolutionPLoS ONE
Pettay J., Charmantier A., Wilson A., Lummaa V.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Male twins reduce fitness of female co-twins in humans (2007)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Lummaa V., Pettay J., Russell A.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Natural Selection on Female Life-History Traits in Relation to Socio-Economic Class in Pre-Industrial Human Populations (2007)
Pettay JE, Helle S, Jokela J, Lummaa V
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans. (2005)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Pettay JE, Kruuk LEB, Jokela J, Lummaa V.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)