Mirkka Lahdenperä
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
mirkka.lahdenpera@utu.fi +358 29 450 2079 +358 50 541 7246 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku |
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
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.
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- Association of Paternal BMI and Diet During Pregnancy with Offspring Birth Measures : The STEPS Study (2025)
- Nutrients
- Changes in food habits during the transition to retirement: the Whitehall II cohort study (2025)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Close and more distant relatives are associated with child mortality risk in historical Finland (2025)
- Evolutionary Human Sciences
- Asian elephant calf physiology and mahout perspectives during taming in Myanmar (2024)
- Royal Society Open Science
- Fertility resilience varies by socioeconomic status and sex : Historical trends in childlessness across 150 years (2024)
- iScience
- Menopause has not evolved as a general trait in mammals: A response to ‘Do mammals have menopause?’ (2024)
- bioRxiv
- Milk metabolite composition of a semi-captive population of Asian elephants (2024)
- Royal Society Open Science
- 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
- Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population (2023)
- Behavioral Ecology
- Kolmen sukupolven perheet ja resurssikilpailu esiteollisessa Suomessa (2023)
- Väestöliitto : Tietovuoto
- Residential green environments are associated with human milk oligosaccharide diversity and composition (2023)
- Scientific Reports
- Sex, age, and family structure influence dispersal behaviour after a forced migration (2023)
- Evolutionary Human Sciences
- Age related variation of health markers in Asian elephants (2022)
- Experimental Gerontology
- Asuinalueen sosioekonomisen huono-osaisuuden yhteys lapsiperheiden ruokavalion laatuun (2022)
- Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
- Diet quality in preschool children and associations with individual eating behavior and neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage. The STEPS Study (2022)
- Appetite
- Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants (2022)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Neighborhood disadvantage, greenness and population density as predictors of breastfeeding practices: a population cohort study from Finland (2022)
- Journal of Nutrition
- Parental feeding practices and child eating behavior in different socioeconomic neighborhoods and their association with childhood weight. The STEPS study (2022)
- Health and Place
- Parental Self-Efficacy and Child Diet Quality between Ages 2 and 5: The STEPS Study (2022)
- Nutrients
- Psychological Distress During the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment (2022)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series B
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