Samuli Helle
 Ph.D., Docent
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Evolutionary ecology; demography; epidemiology; statistics; fishing.
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.
- Investment by maternal grandmother buffers children against the impacts of adverse early life experiences  (2024)  - Scientific Reports
 
- Reply to: Maternal capacity, twinning and fertility: the last birth matters  (2024)  - Nature Communications
 
- Testing the expensive-tissue hypothesis' prediction of inter-tissue competition using causal modelling with latent variables  (2024)  - Evolutionary Human Sciences
 
- Differential grandparental investment when maternal grandmothers are dead vs alive  (2023)   Tanskanen Antti O., Helle Samuli, Danielsbacka Mirkka
- Differential grandparental investment when maternal grandmothers are living versus deceased  (2023)  - Biology Letters
 
- Parental Investment by Birth Fathers and Stepfathers - Roles of Mating Effort and Childhood Co-residence Duration  (2023)  - Human Nature
 
- Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals  (2023)  - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
 
- Atmospheric humidity affects global variation of bat echolocation via indirect effects  (2022)  - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
 
- Matrilateral bias of grandparental investment in grandchildren persists despite the grandchildren's adverse early life experiences  (2022)  - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
 
- Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe  (2022)  - Nature Communications
 
- Structural equation modeling reveals decoupling of ecological and self-perceived outcomes in a garden box social-ecological system  (2022)  - Scientific Reports
 
- Support for populist candidates predicted by declining social capital and an increase in suicides  (2022)  - SN Social Sciences
 
- The interplay of grandparental investment according to the survival status of other grandparent types  (2022)  - Scientific Reports
 
- Identifying the paths of climate effects on population dynamics: dynamic and multilevel structural equation model around the annual cycle  (2021)  - Oecologia
 
- Kin recognition and step-paternal investment: the effect of childhood co-residence duration  (2021)   Pettay Jenni, Danielsbacka Mirkka, Helle Samuli, Tanskanen Antti O.
- 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
- 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
- Do “Dark” Personality Features Buffer Against Adversity? The Associations Between Cumulative Life Stress, the Dark Triad, and Mental Distress  (2019)  - Sage open
 
- Does testosterone predict women's preference for facial masculinity?  (2019)  - PLoS ONE
 
- Impact of continuous predator threat on telomere dynamics in parent and nestling pied flycatchers  (2019)  - Oecologia
 





