Samuli Helle
Ph.D., Docent
sayrhe@utu.fi +358 29 450 4887 +358 45 355 7634 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6216-3759 |
Areas of expertise
Evolutionary ecology; demography; epidemiology; statistics; fishing.
Evolutionary ecology; demography; epidemiology; statistics; fishing.
Research
My main research interest is human evolutionary demography in preindustrial populations. In my research I use historical demographic data from northern Fennoscandia that contain people practicing traditional subsistence modes as well small-scale agriculture and trading. This data set is accompanied with wealth of information on how those people lived and on their environmental conditions. I also work sporadically with other study systems related to evolutionary psychology, evolutionary medicine and behavioral ecology.
Publications 
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- Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe (2022)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Structural equation modeling reveals decoupling of ecological and self-perceived outcomes in a garden box social-ecological system (2022)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Support for populist candidates predicted by declining social capital and an increase in suicides (2022)
- SN Social Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The interplay of grandparental investment according to the survival status of other grandparent types (2022)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Identifying the paths of climate effects on population dynamics: dynamic and multilevel structural equation model around the annual cycle (2021)
- Oecologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kin recognition and step-paternal investment: the effect of childhood co-residence duration (2021) Pettay Jenni, Danielsbacka Mirkka, Helle Samuli, Tanskanen Antti O.
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Lineage-based differences in grandparental investment according to adverse early life experiences of grandchildren (2021) Helle Samuli, Tanskanen Antti O., Coall David A., Danielsbacka Mirkka
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Dead or alive: The interplay of grandparental investment according to the survival status of other grandparent types (2020) Samuli Helle, Antti Tanskanen, Jenni Pettay, Mirkka Danielsbacka
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Do “Dark” Personality Features Buffer Against Adversity? The Associations Between Cumulative Life Stress, the Dark Triad, and Mental Distress (2019)
- Sage open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Does testosterone predict women's preference for facial masculinity? (2019)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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