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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- Limits to Fitness Benefits of Prolonged Post-reproductive Lifespan in Women (2019)
- Current Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Males have more aggressive and less sociable personalities than females in semi-captive Asian elephants (2019)
- Scientific ReportsPLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A Simple, Practical Method for Measurement of Fat in Milk, Applied to Mid- to Late-Lactating Working Elephants in MyanmarGrandmother Hypothesis (2018)
- Novel Techniques in Nutrition and Food Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants (2018)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of female reproductive competition on birth rate and reproductive scheduling in a historical human population (2018)
- Behavioral EcologyFinnish Yearbook of Population Research
(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)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (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)
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