Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Mirkka Lahdenperä - UTU Research Portal

Mirkka Lahdenperä
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

- Associate Professor,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Department of 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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SELECTION ON MENOPAUSE IN TWO PREMODERN HUMAN POPULATIONS: NO EVIDENCE FOR THE MOTHER HYPOTHESIS (2011)
- Evolution
Lahdenperä M, Russell A F, Tremblay M, Lummaa V
Pair-bonding modifies the age-specific intensity of natural selection on human female fecundity (2010)
- American Naturalist
Gillespie D, Lahdenperä M, Russell A F, Lummaa V
Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women (2004)
- Nature
Lahdenpera M, Lummaa V, Helle S, Tremblay M, Russell AF