Samuli Helle
Ph.D., Docent
sayrhe@utu.fi +358 29 450 4887 +358 45 355 7634 |
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.
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- Natural Selection on Female Life-History Traits in Relation to Socio-Economic Class in Pre-Industrial Human PopulationsHuman longevity and early reproduction in pre-industrial Sami populations (2007)
- PLoS ONEJournal of Evolutionary Biology
- Are reproductive and somatic senescence coupled in humans? Late, but not early, reproduction correlated with longevity in historical Sami womenSons reduced maternal longevity in preindustrial humans (2005)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesScience
- Accelerated immunosenescence in preindustrial twin mothers (2004)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women (2004)
- Nature
- Selection for increased brood size in historical human populations (2004)
- Evolution
- Effect of producing sons on maternal longevity in premodern populations - Response (2002)
- Science
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