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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- Effects of female reproductive competition on birth rate and reproductive scheduling in a historical human population (2018)
- Behavioral Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evaluating the personality structure of semi-captive Asian elephants living in their natural habitat (2018)
- Royal Society Open Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Grandmotherhood across the demographic transition (2018)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Grandmother Hypothesis (2018) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science Mirkka Lahdenperä, Antti O. Tanskanen, Mirkka Danielsbacka
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Limited support for the X-linked grandmother hypothesis in pre-industrial Finland (2018)
- Biology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Changes in Length of Grandparenthood in Finland 1790-1959 (2017)
- Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Is bigger better? The relationship between size and reproduction in female Asian elephants (2017)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Costly reproductive competition between co-resident females in humans (2016)
- Behavioral Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Nearby grandmother enhances calf survival and reproduction in Asian elephants (2016)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Short-term and delayed effects of mother death on calf mortality in Asian elephants (2016)
- Behavioral Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Early reproductive investment, senescence and lifetime reproductive success in female Asian elephants (2014)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Personality and long-term reproductive success measured by the number of grandchildren (2014)
- Evolution and Human Behavior
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reproductive cessation and post-reproductive lifespan in Asian elephants and pre-industrial humans (2014)
- Frontiers in Zoology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Miksi biologeja kiinnostaa historiallinen kirkonkirja-aineisto? (2013)
- Historiallinen Aikakauskirja
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Causes and Correlates of Calf Mortality in Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) (2012)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Severe intergenerational reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause (2012)
- Ecology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Selection on male longevity in a monogamous human population: late-life survival brings no additional grandchildren (2011)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - SELECTION ON MENOPAUSE IN TWO PREMODERN HUMAN POPULATIONS: NO EVIDENCE FOR THE MOTHER HYPOTHESIS (2011)
- Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pair-bonding modifies the age-specific intensity of natural selection on human female fecundity (2010)
- American Naturalist
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women (2004)
- Nature
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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