Mirkka Lahdenperä
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
mirkka.lahdenpera@utu.fi +358 29 450 2079 +358 50 541 7246 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0062-6284 |
Areas of expertise
evolutionary health, health behaviour, death causes, social living environment, physical living environment, milk composition, evolutionary ecology, life history, co-operation, conflict, kin effects, evolution of longevity, post-reproductive lifespan
evolutionary health, health behaviour, death causes, social living environment, physical living environment, milk composition, evolutionary ecology, life history, co-operation, conflict, kin effects, evolution of longevity, post-reproductive lifespan
Biography
Research
My research focus on evolutionary perspectives of human health, life-history and social networks. I'm also interested in similar questions in other long-lived animals.
Publications 
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- Association of Paternal BMI and Diet During Pregnancy with Offspring Birth Measures : The STEPS Study (2025)
- Nutrients
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Changes in food habits during the transition to retirement: the Whitehall II cohort study (2025)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Close and more distant relatives are associated with child mortality risk in historical Finland (2025)
- Evolutionary Human Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Asian elephant calf physiology and mahout perspectives during taming in Myanmar (2024)
- Royal Society Open Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fertility resilience varies by socioeconomic status and sex : Historical trends in childlessness across 150 years (2024)
- iScience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Menopause has not evolved as a general trait in mammals: A response to ‘Do mammals have menopause?’ (2024)
- bioRxiv
(Other publication) - Milk metabolite composition of a semi-captive population of Asian elephants (2024)
- Royal Society Open Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The role of early life factors and green living environment in the development of gut microbiota in infancy : Population-based cohort study (2024)
- Environment International
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population (2023)
- Behavioral Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kolmen sukupolven perheet ja resurssikilpailu esiteollisessa Suomessa (2023)
- Väestöliitto : Tietovuoto
(Other publication) - Residential green environments are associated with human milk oligosaccharide diversity and composition (2023)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sex, age, and family structure influence dispersal behaviour after a forced migration (2023)
- Evolutionary Human Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Age related variation of health markers in Asian elephants (2022)
- Experimental Gerontology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Asuinalueen sosioekonomisen huono-osaisuuden yhteys lapsiperheiden ruokavalion laatuun (2022)
- Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Diet quality in preschool children and associations with individual eating behavior and neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage. The STEPS Study (2022)
- Appetite
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants (2022)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Neighborhood disadvantage, greenness and population density as predictors of breastfeeding practices: a population cohort study from Finland (2022)
- Journal of Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Parental feeding practices and child eating behavior in different socioeconomic neighborhoods and their association with childhood weight. The STEPS study (2022)
- Health and Place
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Parental Self-Efficacy and Child Diet Quality between Ages 2 and 5: The STEPS Study (2022)
- Nutrients
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Psychological Distress During the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment (2022)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series B
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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