Search filters

List of works by Virpi Lummaa

A standardised faecal collection protocol for intestinal helminth egg counts in Asian elephants, Elephas maximus

scientific article

A trade-off between having many sons and shorter maternal post-reproductive survival in pre-industrial Finland ⬇️

scientific article published on February 27, 2013

Accelerated immunosenescence in preindustrial twin mothers

scholarly article

Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women

scientific article published on 4 July 2008

Associations between family size and offspring education depend on aspects of parental personality

Birth seasonality and calf mortality in a large population of Asian elephants

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Causes and Correlates of Calf Mortality in Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Climatic variation and age‐specific survival in Asian elephants from Myanmar ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2013

Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in 
post-war Finland

scientific article published in 2022

Culled males, infant mortality and reproductive success in a pre-industrial Finnish population

scientific article published in January 2015

Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Distinguishing between determinate and indeterminate growth in a long-lived mammal

scientific article

Divergent selection on, but no genetic conflict over, female and male timing and rate of reproduction in a human population

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?

scientific article published on 07 October 2009

Early Developmental conditions and reproductive success in humans: Downstream effects of prenatal famine, birthweight, and timing of birth ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Early-life disease exposure and associations with adult survival, cause of death, and reproductive success in preindustrial humans

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Early-life reproduction is associated with increased mortality risk but enhanced lifetime fitness in pre-industrial humans

scientific article

Ecological variation in wealth-fertility relationships in Mongolia: the 'central theoretical problem of sociobiology' not a problem after all?

scientific article published in December 2014

Effects of remarriage after widowhood on long-term fitness in a monogamous historical human population

article

Effects of the demographic transition on the genetic variances and covariances of human life-history traits.

scientific article published on 5 February 2015

Elephants born in the high stress season have faster reproductive ageing

scientific article

Evolution of sex differences in lifespan and aging: Causes and constraints ⬇️

scientific article published on 03 June 2013

Evolutionary demography of agricultural expansion in preindustrial northern Finland

scientific article published in November 2014

Fitness Consequences of Advanced Ancestral Age over Three Generations in Humans

scientific article published on June 2015

Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women

scientific article

Food and fitness: associations between crop yields and life-history traits in a longitudinally monitored pre-industrial human population

scientific article published on 15 August 2012

Food availability at birth limited reproductive success in historical humans ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Genetic Associations Between Personality Traits and Lifetime Reproductive Success in Humans

scientific article published on 9 August 2016

Grandmotherhood across the demographic transition

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Handler familiarity helps to improve working performance during novel situations in semi-captive Asian elephants

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans

scientific article

How Big Is It Really? Assessing the Efficacy of Indirect Estimates of Body Size in Asian Elephants

scientific article

Increased mortality exposure within the family rather than individual mortality experiences triggers faster life-history strategies in historic human populations

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Influence of early-life nutrition on mortality and reproductive success during a subsequent famine in a preindustrial population.

scientific article published on 05 August 2013

Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Limited support for the X-linked grandmother hypothesis in pre-industrial Finland.

scientific article published in January 2018

Limits to Fitness Benefits of Prolonged Post-reproductive Lifespan in Women

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Male twins reduce fitness of female co-twins in humans

scientific article

Marrying women 15 years younger maximized men's evolutionary fitness in historical Sami

scientific article published on February 2008

Maternal Risk of Breeding Failure Remained Low throughout the Demographic Transitions in Fertility and Age at First Reproduction in Finland ⬇️

scientific article published on April 18, 2012

Maternal effects in cooperative breeders: from hymenopterans to humans

scientific article published on April 2009

Middleborns disadvantaged? Testing birth-order effects on fitness in pre-industrial Finns

scientific article

Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population

scientific article

Natural selection on female life-history traits in relation to socio-economic class in pre-industrial human populations

scientific article

Nearby grandmother enhances calf survival and reproduction in Asian elephants

scientific article

Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia

scientific article

Parasite-associated mortality in a long-lived mammal: Variation with host age, sex, and reproduction

scientific article published on 12 November 2017

Parent-offspring conflict over family size in current China

scientific article published on 5 January 2017

Personality and long-term reproductive success measured by the number of grandchildren

article

Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population

scientific article

Publisher Correction: Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Reduced costs of reproduction in females mediate a shift from a male-biased to a female-biased lifespan in humans

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Reproductive cessation and post-reproductive lifespan in Asian elephants and pre-industrial humans

scientific article

Selection for increased brood size in historical human populations

scientific article

Selection on menopause in two premodern human populations: no evidence for the Mother Hypothesis.

scientific article published on 3 November 2010

Senescence and age-specific trade-offs between reproduction and survival in female Asian elephants

scientific article

Serial monogamy increases reproductive success in men but not in women

article by Markus Jokela et al published 2010 in Behavioral Ecology

Severe intergenerational reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause

scientific article

Sex differences in adult mortality rate mediated by early-life environmental conditions

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Short-term and delayed effects of mother death on calf mortality in Asian elephants

scientific article

Stress and body condition are associated with climate and demography in Asian elephants

scientific article

Testing storage methods of faecal samples for subsequent measurement of helminth egg numbers in the domestic horse.

scientific article

Testing the evolutionary basis of the predictive adaptive response hypothesis in a preindustrial human population

scientific article published on January 2013

The demographic transition influences variance in fitness and selection on height and BMI in rural Gambia

scientific article published on 25 April 2013

The effect of maternal age and reproductive history on offspring survival and lifetime reproduction in preindustrial humans.

scientific article

The effect of socio-economic status and food availability on first birth interval in a pre-industrial human population

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

The predictive adaptive response and metabolic syndrome: challenges for the hypothesis

scientific article published on 22 February 2007

The seasonality of three childhood infections in a pre-industrial society without schools

scientific article

Twinning propensity and offspring in utero growth covary in rural African women ⬇️

scientific article published on August 10, 2011

What have humans done for evolutionary biology? Contributions from genes to populations

scientific article published in November 2017

Paulina is supported by:

About Paulina

Help