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