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Publications

2024

Galante L, dos Santos DJF, Mikkonen E, Horak J, Zijepic Z, Demmelmair H, Vielhauer A, Koletzko B, Zaw HT, Htut W, Lummaa V, Lahdenperä M. 2024: Milk metabolite composition of a semi-captive population of Asian elephants. Royal Society Open Science 11: 240930. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.240930   Download PDF

Courtiol A, Vullioud C, Rousset F, Postma E, Helle S, Lummaa V, Kylli R, Pettay JE, Røskaft E, Skjærvø GR, Störmer C, Voland E, Waldvogel D, Rickard IJ. 2024: Reply to: Maternal capacity, winning and fertility: the last birth matters. Nature Communications 15: 8446.   DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52549-2   Download PDF

Salonen M, Lahdenperä M, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2024: Fertility resilience varies by socioeconomic status and sex: Historical trends in childlessness across 150 years. iScience 27: 110227.   DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110227    Download PDF

Liehrmann O, Ollila A, Lummaa V, Lansade L, Seltmann MW. (2024) Enhancing stress assessment in sledge reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): A pilot study of infrared thermal imaging and its opportunities for advancement as a welfare assesment tool.   Animal Behavior and Cognition 11(3):293-304.   DOI: 10.26451/abc.11.03.04.2024.   Download PDF

Chapman SN, Lummaa V. 2024: Grandmother effects over the Finnish demographic transition. Evolutionary Human Sciences 6, e6, 1-12.   DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2023.36.   Download PDF

Crawley JAH, Nandar H, Zaw HT, Lahdenperä M, dos Santos DJF, Seltmann MW, Brown JL, Goodsell RM, Oo ZM, Htut W, Nyein UK, Aung HH, Lummaa V. 2024: Asian elephant calf physiology and mahout perspectives during taming in Myanmar. Royal Society Open Science 11(4).   DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231172.   Download PDF

2023

Ukonaho S, Berger V, Franco dos Santos D, Htut W, Aung HH, Nyein UK, Reichert S, Lummaa V. 2023: Seasonal variation in molecular and physiological stress markers in Asian elephants. Conservation Physiology 11(1) coad029.   DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coad029.   Download PDF

Liehrmann O, Ollila A, Lummaa V, Lansade L, Seltmann M. 2023: First report of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) response to human-given cues. Journal of Comparative Psychology 137(4), 223–227.     DOI: 10.1037/com0000353,   Download PDF

Liehrmann O, Cosnard C, Riihonen V, Viitanen A, Alander E, Jardat P, Koski SE, Lummaa V, Lansade L. 2023: What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditions. Animal Cognition 26: 1283-1294.   DOI: 10.1007/s10071-023-01775-0.    Download PDF

Ukonaho S, Chapman SN, Briga M, Lummaa V. 2023: Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns. Proc R Soc B 290: 20230690.   DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0690.   Download PDF

Ross CT, Hooper PL, Smith JE, Jaeggi AV, Smith EA, Gavrilets S… (+100), Mulder MB. 2023: Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. PNAS 120(22), e2220124120.   DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220124120.   Download PDF

Young EA, Chesterton E, Lummaa V, Postma E, Dugdale HL. 2023:  The long-lasting legacy of reproduction: lifetime reproductive success shapes expected genetic contributions of humans after 10 generations. Proc R Soc B 290: 20230287.   DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0287.  Download PDF

Nitsch A, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2023: Sibling competition, dispersal and fitness outcomes in humans. Scientific Reports 13(1): 7539.   DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33700-3.   Download PDF

Chapman S, Danielsbacka M, Tanskanen AO, Lahdenperä M, Pettay J, Lummaa V. 2023: Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population.   Behavioral Ecology 34(3): 446-456.   DOI:10.1093/beheco/arad013.   Download PDF

Kauppi JJ, Chapman SN, Pettay JE, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Loehr J. 2023: Sex, age, and family structure influence dispersal behaviour after forced migration. Evolutionary human sciences 5, e21, 1-13.   DOI:10.1017/ehs.2023.16.
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2022

Galante L, Lahdenperä M, Rautava S, Pentti J, Ollila H, Tarro S, Vahtera J, Gonzales-Inca C, Kivimäki M, Lummaa V, Lagström H. 2022: Neighborhood disadvantage, greenness, and population density as predictors of breastfeeding practices: a population cohort study from Finland. Journal of Nutrition 152(7), 1721-1728.   DOI:10.1093/jn/nxac069.   Download PDF

Lalande LD, Lummaa V, Aung HH, Htut W, Nyein UK, Berger V, Briga M. 2022: Sex-specific body mass ageing trajectories in adult Asian elephants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35(5), 752-762.   DOI:10.1101/2020.12.17.423208v8.   Download PDF

Liehrmann O, Viitanen A, Riihonen V, Alander E, Koski SE, Lummaa V, Lansade L. 2022: Multiple handlers, several owner changes and short relationship lengths affect horses’ responses to novel object tests. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 254, 105709.   DOI:10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105709.   Download PDF

Lynsdale C*, Seltmann MW*, Mon NO, Aung HH, Nyein UK, Htut W, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V. 2022: Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 76(7), 1-13. (* Equal contribution)   DOI:10.1007/s00265-022-03192-8.   Download PDF

Lynch R, Loehr J, Lummaa V, Honkola T, Pettay J, Vesakoski O. 2022: Socio-cultural similarity with host population rather than ecological similarity predicts success and failure of human migrations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 289(1967), 20212298.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2021.2298.   Download PDF

Reichert S, Berger V, Dos Santos DJF, Lahdenperä M, Nyein UK, Htut W, Lummaa V. 2022: Age related variation of health markers in Asian elephants. Experimental Gerontology 157, 111629.   DOI:10.1016/j.exger.2021.111629Download PDF

Rickard IJ, Vullioud C, Rousset F, Postma E, Helle S, Lummaa V, Kylli R, Pettay JE, Røskaft E, Skjærvø GR, Störmer C, Voland E, Waldvogel D, Courtiol A. 2022: Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe. Nature Communications 13(1), 1-12.   DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-30366-9Download PDF

Seltmann MW, Lynch E, Jackson J, Htut W, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V. 2022: Sex-specific links between the social landscape and faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in semi-captive Asian elephants. General and Comparative Endocrinology 319, 113990.   DOI:10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.113990.   Download PDF

Ukonaho S, Lummaa V, Briga M. 2022: The long-term success of mandatory vaccination laws at implementing world’s first vaccination campaign in the 19th century rural Finland. American Journal of Epidemiology 191(7), 1180-1189.   DOI:10.1093/aje/kwac048.   Download PDF

Zhang L, Liu J, Lummaa V. 2022: Intention to have a second child, family support and actual fertility behavior in current China: An evolutionary perspective. American Journal of Human Biology 34(4), e23669.   DOI:10.1002/ajhb.23669.   Download PDF

2021

Berger V, Reichert S, Lahdenperä M, Jackson J, Htut W, Lummaa V. 2021: The elephant in the family: Costs and benefits of elder siblings on younger offspring life-history trajectory in a matrilineal mammal. Journal of Animal Ecology 90(11), 2663-2677.   DOI:10.1111/1365-2656.13573   Download PDF

Chapman SN, Lahdenperä M, Pettay J, Lynch RF, Lummaa V. 2021: Offspring fertility and grandchild survival enhanced by maternal grandmothers in a pre-industrial human society. Scientific Reports 11: 3652.   DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-83353-3   Download PDF

Crawley JAH, Lierhmann O, Franco dos Santos DJ, Brown J, Nyein UK, Aung HH, Htut W, Min Oo Z, Seltmann MW, Webb JL, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V. 2021: Influence of handler relationships and experience on health parameters, glucocorticoid responses and behaviour of semi-captive Asian elephants. Conservation Physiology 9(1): coaa116.  DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coaa116   Download PDF

Ketola T, Briga M, Honkola T, Lummaa V. 2021: Town population size and structuring into villages and households drive infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288 (1949), 20210356.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2021.0356   Download PDF

Liehrmann O, Crawley JAH, Seltmann MW, Feillet S, Nyein UK, Aung HH, Htut W, Lahdenperä M, Lansade L, Lummaa V. 2021: Handler familiarity helps to improve working performance during novel situations in semi-captive Asian elephants. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 1-10.   DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-95048-w   Download PDF

Nenko I, Chapman SC, Lahdenperä M, Pettay JE, Lummaa V. 2021: Will granny save me? Birth status, survival, and the role of grandmothers in historical Finland. Evolution and Human Behavior 42(3): 239-246.   DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.002   Download PDF

Pettay J, Lummaa V, Lynch R, Loehr J. 2021: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centres create a ‘fertility trap’ in post war Finland. Behavioral Ecology, 32(4), 590-598.  DOI:10.1093/beheco/arab007   Download PDF

Crawley JAH, Lahdenperä M, Oo ZM, Htut W, Nandar H, Lummaa V. 2020: Taming age mortality in semi-captive Asian elephants. Scientific Reports 10, 1885.  DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-58590-7   Download PDF

2020

Danielsbacka M, Aho L, Lynch R, Pettay J, Lummaa V, Loehr J. 2020: The resettlement and subsequent assimilation of evacuees from Finnish Karelia during and after the Second World War. In: Mats Frilund, Mila Oiva & Petri Paju (eds.) Digital, Computational and Distant Reading of History. Emergent approaches within the new digital history. Helsinki University Press, pp.129-147.   DOI:10.33134/HUP-5   Download PDF

Dierenfeld ES, Han YAM, Mar KU, Aung A, Soe AT, Lummaa V, Lahdeperä M. 2020: Milk composition of Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) in a natural environment in Myanmar during late lactation. Animals 10: 725.   DOI:10.3390/ani10040725  Download PDF

Franco dos Santos DJ, Berger V, Cristofari R, Htut W, Nyein UK, Aung HH, Reichert S, Lummaa V. 2020: Seasonal variation of health in Asian elephants. Conservation Physiology 8(1), coaa119.   DOI:10.1093/conphys/coaa119   Download PDF

Franco dos Santos DJ, Jackson J, Aung HH, Nyein UK, Htut W, Lummaa V. 2020: Sex differences in the reference intervals of health parameters in semi-captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) from Myanmar.  Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 51, 25-38.   DOI:10.1638/2018-0818.

Jackson J, Mar KU, Win H, Childs D, Lummaa V. 2020: Changes in age-structure over four decades were a key determinant of population growth rate in a long-lived mammal. Journal of Animal Ecology 89, 2268-2278.   DOI:10.1111/1365‐2656.13290   Download PDF

Lynch R, Lummaa V, Briga M, Chapman SN, Loehr J. 2020: Child volunteers in a women’s paramilitary organization in World War II have accelerated reproductive schedules. Nature Communications 11, 2377.   DOI:10.1038/s41467-020-15703-0   Download PDF

Lynsdale CL, Mon NO, Franco dos Santos DJ, Nyein UK, Htut W, Childs D, Lummaa V. 2020: Demographic and reproductive associations with nematode infection in a long-lived mammal. Scientific Reports 10, 9214.   DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-66075-w   Download PDF

Pettay JE, Chapman SN, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V. 2020: Family dynamics and age-related patterns in marriage probability. Evolution and Human Behavior 41, 35-43.  DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.09.001   Download PDF

Reichert S, Berger V, Jackson J, Chapman S, Htut W, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2020: Maternal age at birth shapes life-history trajectory across generations in long-lived Asian elephants. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 996-1007.   DOI:10.1111/1365‐2656.13049   Download PDF

Seltmann MW, Ukonaho S, Reichert S, Nyein UK, Lummaa V. 2020: Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and H/L ratio are related markers of stress in semi-captive Asian timber elephants. Animals 10, 94.   DOI:10.3390/ani10010094   Download PDF

Webb J, Crawley JAH, Seltmann M, Liehrmann O, Hemmings N, Lummaa V, Lahdenperä M. 2020: Evaluating the reliability of behavioural ethograms in the assessment of Asian elephant welfare. Animals 10, 167.   DOI:10.3390/ani10010167   Download PDF

2019

Chapman SN, Pettay JE, Lummaa V, Lahdenperä M. 2019: Limits to fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women. Current Biology 29: 645-650.  DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.052   Download PDF

Chapman SN, Jackson J, Htut W, Lummaa V, Lahdenperä M. 2019: Asian elephants exhibit post-reproductive lifespans. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 193.  DOI:10.1186/s12862-019-1513-1   Download PDF

Crawley JAH, Lahdenperä M, Seltmann MW, Htut W, Aung HH, Nyein K, Lummaa V. 2019: Investigating changes within the handling system of the largest semi-captive population of Asian elephants. PloS ONE 14(1): e0209701.   DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0209701   Download PDF

Jackson J, Childs DZ, Mar KU, Htut W, Lummaa V. 2019: Long-term trends in wild capture and population dynamics point to an uncertain future for captive elephants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 286: 20182810.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2018.2810   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Jackson J, Htut W, Lummaa V. 2019: Capture from the wild has long-term costs on reproductive success in Asian elephants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286(1912): 20191584.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2019.1584   Download PDF

Laisk T, Tsuiko O, Jatsenko T, Horak P, Otala, M, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Tuuri T, Salumets A, Tapanainen J. 2019: Demographic and evolutionary trends in ovarian function and aging. Human Reproduction Update 25: 34-50.   DOI:10.1093/humupd/dmy031   Download PDF

Lynch E, Lummaa V, Htut W, Lahdenperä M. 2019: Evolutionary significance of maternal kinship in a long-lived mammal. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 374(1780): 20180067.   DOI:10.1098/rstb.2018.0067   Download PDF

Lynch RF, Lummaa V, Loehr J. 2019: Self-sacrifice and kin psychology in war: threats to family predict decisions to volunteer for a women’s paramilitary organization. Evolution and Human Behavior 40: 543-550.   DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.001   Download PDF

Lynch RF, Lummaa V, Panchanthan K, Middleton KM. Rotkirch A, Danielsbacka M, O’Brien D, Loehr J. 2019: Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for Finnish evacuees in World War II. Nature Human Behaviour 3(4): 337-345.   DOI:10.1038/s41562-019-0542-5   Download PDF

Seltmann, MW, Helle S, Htut W, Lahdenperä M. 2019: Males have more aggressive and less sociable personalities than females in semi-captive Asian elephants. Scientific Reports 9, 2668.   DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-39915-7   Download PDF

2018

Corbett S, Courtiol A, Lummaa V, Moorad J, Stearns S. 2018: The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection. Nature Reviews Genetics 19: 419–430. (Authors in alphabetical order)   DOI:10.1038/s41576-018-0012-3   Download PDF

Chapman SN, Pettay JE, Lummaa V, Lahdenperä M. 2018: Limited support for the X-linked grandmother hypothesis in pre-industrial Finland. Biology Letters 14: 20170651.  DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2017.0651   Download PDF

Chapman SN, Pettay JE, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V. 2018: Grandmotherhood across the demographic transition. PloS ONE 13 (7); e0200963.  DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0200963   Download PDF

Griffin R, Hayward AD, Bolund E, Maklakov AA, Lummaa V. 2018: Sex differences in adult mortality rate mediated by early-life environmental conditions. Ecology Letters 21(2):235-242.   DOI:10.1111/ele.12888   Download PDF

Han YAM, Dierenfeld ES, Mar KU, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Aung A. 2018: A simple, practical method for measurement of fat in milk, applied to mid- to late-lactating working elephants in Myanmar. Novel Techniques in Nutrition and Food Science 2(4), 183-186.   DOI:10.31031/NTNF.2018.02.000541   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Mar KU, Courtiol A, Lummaa V. 2018: Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants. Nature Communications 9: 3544.   DOI:10.1038/s41467-018-05515-8   Download PDF

Liu J, Lummaa V. 2018: Whether to have a second child or not? An integrative approach to women’s reproductive decision-making in current China. Evolution and Human Behaviour 40: 194-203.   DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.11.004   Download PDF

Nenko I, Hayward AD, Simons MJP, Lummaa V. 2018: Early-life environment and differences in costs of reproduction in a preindustrial human population. PloS ONE 13 (12).   DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0207236   Download PDF

Pettay J, Lahdenperä M, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2018: Effects of female reproductive competition on birth rate and reproductive scheduling in a historical human population. Behavioural Ecology 29(2): 333-341.m   DOI:10.1093/beheco/arx168   Download PDF

Seltmann MW, Helle S, Adams MJ, Mar KU, Lahdenperä M. 2018: Evaluating the personality structure of semi-captive Asian elephants living in their natural habitat. Royal Society Open Science 5(2).   DOI:10.1098/rsos.172026   Download PDF

2017

Bolund E, Lummaa V. 2017: The effects of resource availability and the demographic transition on the genetic correlation between number of children and grandchildren in humans. Heredity 1-7.   DOI:10.1038/hdy.2016.81   Download PDF

Briga M, Griffin RM, Berger V, Pettay JE, Lummaa V. 2017: What have humans done for evolutionary biology? Contributions from genes to populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 20171164.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2017.1164   Download PDF

Chapman SN, Lahdenperä M, Pettay JE, Lummaa V. 2017: Changes in length of grandparenthood in Finland 1790-1959. Finnish Yearbook of Population Research 52, 3-13.  DOI:10.23979/fypr.65346   Download PDF

Crawley JAH, Mumby HS, Chapman SN, Lahdenperä M, Mar KU, Htut W, Thura Soe A, Aung HH, Lummaa V. 2017: Is bigger better? The relationship between size and reproduction in female Asian elephants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30 (10).   DOI:10.1111/jeb.13143   Download PDF

Liu L, Duan C, Lummaa V. 2017: Parent-offspring conflict over family size in current China. American Journal of Human Biology 29(3).   DOI:10.1002/ajhb.22946   Download PDF

Loehr J, Lynch R, Mappes J, Salmi T, Pettay J, Lummaa V. 2017: Newly digitized database reveals the lives and families of forced migrants from Finnish Karelia. Finnish Yearbook of Population Research 52, 59-70.   DOI:10.23979/fypr.65212   Download PDF

Lynsdale CL, Mumby HS, Hayward AD, Mar KU Lummaa V. 2017: Parasite-associated mortality in a long- lived mammal: Variation with host age, sex, and reproduction. Ecology and Evolution 2017;1-12.   DOI:10.1002/ece3.3559   Download PDF

2016

Berg V, Lummaa V, Rickard IJ, Silventoinen K, Kaprio J, Jokela M. 2016: Genetic associations between personality traits and lifetime reproductive success in humans. Behavior Genetics 46 (6): 742–753.   DOI:10.1007/s10519-016-9803-5   Download PDF

Bolund E, Hayward AD, Lummaa V. 2016: Life History Evolution, Human. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology edited by Kliman RM. Elsevier. Pp. 328-334.  DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00097-4   Download PDF

Bolund E, Lummaa V, Smith KR, Hanson H, Maklakov AA. 2016: Reduced costs of reproduction in females mediate a shift from a male-biased to a female-biased lifespan in humans. Scientific Reports 6: 24672.   DOI:10.1038/srep24672   Download PDF

Hayward AD, Rigby FL, Lummaa V. 2016: Early-life disease exposure and associations with adult survival, cause of death and reproductive success in pre-industrial Finland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A. 201519820.   DOI:10.1073/pnas.1519820113   Download PDF

Chapman SN, Mumby HS, Crawley JAH, Mar KU, Htut W, Thura Soe A, Aung HH, Lummaa V. 2016: How big is it really? Assessing the efficacy of indirect estimates of body size using a large-bodied mammal. PloS ONE 11 (3), e0150533.   DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0150533   Download PDF

Crawley JAH, Chapman SN, Lummaa V, Lynsdale CL. 2016: Testing storage methods of faecal samples for subsequent measurement of helminth egg numbers in the domestic horse. Veterinary Parasitology 221: 130-133.   DOI:10.1016/j.vetpar.2016.03.012   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2016: Nearby grandmother enhances calf survival and reproduction in Asian elephants. Scientific Reports 6: 27213.  DOI:10.1038/srep27213   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2016: Short-term and delayed effects of mother death on calf mortality in Asian elephants. Behavioral Evology 27: 166-174.  DOI:10.1093/beheco/arv136   Download PDF

Lummaa V. 2016: Human behavioral ecology. In: Evolution and Modern Society: An Introduction to how Evolution Shapes our Lives, edited by Lenski R & Losos J. Princeton University Press.   Read more

Nitsch A, Lummaa V, Faurie C. 2016: Sibship effects on dispersal behavior in a pre-industrial human population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29: 1986-98.  DOI:10.1111/jeb.12922   Download PDF

Pettay JE, Lahdenperä M, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2016: Costly reproductive competition between co-resident females in humans. Behavioral Ecology arw088.  DOI:10.1093/beheco/arw088   Download PDF

Scranton K, Lummaa V, Stearns SC. 2016: The importance of timescale of the fitness metric for estimates of selection on phenotypic traits during a period of demographic change. Ecology Letters 19: 854–861.   DOI:10.1111/ele.12619   Download PDF

2015

Bolund E, Hayward AD, Pettay JE, Lummaa V. 2015: Effects of the demographic transition on the genetic variances and covariances of human life history traits. Evolution 69: 747-755.   DOI:10.1111/evo.12598   Download PDF

Brucker T, Helle S, Bolund E, Lummaa V. 2015: Culled males, infant mortality and reproductive success in a pre-industrial Finnish population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 282: 20140835.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2014.0835   Download PDF

Hayward AD, Lummaa V, Bazykin GA. 2015: Fitness consequences of advanced ancestral age over three generations in humans.  PloS ONE 10: e0128197.  DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0128197   Download PDF

Hayward AD, Nenko I, Lummaa V. 2015: Early-life reproduction is associated with increased mortality risk but enhanced lifetime fitness in pre-industrial humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 282: 20143053.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2014.3053   Download PDF

Lynsdale CL, dos Santos DJF, Hayward AD, Mar KU, Htut W, Aung HH, Soe, AT, Lummaa V. 2015: A standardised faecal collection protocol for intestinal helminth egg counts in Asian elephants, Elephas maximus. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 4: 307-315.   DOI:10.1016/j.ijppaw.2015.06.001   Download PDF

Mumby HS, Chapman SN, Crawley JAH, Mar KU, Htut W, Soe AT, Aung HH, Lummaa V. 2015: Distinguishing between determinate and indeterminate growth in a long-lived mammal. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 214.   DOI:10.1186/s12862-015-0487-x   Download PDF

Mumby HS, Mar KU, Hayward AD, Htut W, Htut-Aung Y, Lummaa V. 2015: Elephants born in the high stress season have faster reproductive ageing. Scientific Reports 5: 13946.   DOI:10.1038/srep13946   Download PDF

Mumby HS, Mar KU, Thitaram C, Courtiol A, Towiboon C, Min-Oo Z, Htut-Aung J, Brown JL, Lummaa V. 2015: Stress and body condition are associated with climate and demography in Asian elephants. Conservation Physiology 3: cov030.   DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cov030   Download PDF

2014

Alvergne A, Lummaa V. 2014: Ecological variation in wealth-fertility relationships in Mongolia: the “central theoretical problem of human sociobiology” not a problem after all? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20141733.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2014.1733   Download PDF

Berg V, Lummaa, V, Lahdenperä M, Rotkirch, A, Jokela, M. 2014: Personality and long-term reproductive success measured by the number of grandchildren. Evolution and Human Behaviour 35: 533-539.   DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.07.006   Download PDF

Hayward AD, Mar KU, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V. 2014: Early reproductive investment, senescence and lifetime reproductive success in female Asian elephants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 772-783.   DOI:10.1111/jeb.12350   Download PDF

Helle S, Brommer JE, Pettay JE, Lummaa V, Enbuske M, Jokela J. 2014: Evolutionary demography of agricultural expansion in preindustrial northern Finland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20141559.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2014.1559   Download PDF

Jokela M, Alvergne A, Rotkirch A, Rickard IJ, Lummaa V. 2014: Associations between family size and offspring education depend on aspects of parental personality. Personality and Individual Differences 58: 95–100.   DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2013.10.009   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2014: Reproductive cessation and post-reproductive lifespan in Asian elephants and pre-industrial humans. Frontiers in Zoology 11: 1-14.   DOI:10.1186/s12983-014-0054-0   Download PDF

Liu J, Lummaa V. 2014: An evolutionary approach to change of status–fertility relationship in human fertility transition. Behavioral Ecology, 25: 102-109.  DOI:10.1093/beheco/art091   Download PDF

Nenko I, Hayward AD, Lummaa V. 2014: The effect of socio-economic status and food availability on first birth interval in a pre-industrial human population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 2013-2319.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2013.2319   Download PDF

Nitsch A, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2014: Alloparenting in humans: fitness consequences of aunts and uncles on survival in historical Finland. Behavioral Ecology 25: 424-433.   DOI:10.1093/beheco/art126   Download PDF

Pettay JE, Rotkirch A, Courtiol A, Jokela M, Lummaa V. 2014: Multiple marriages after widowhood did not enhance male or female long-term fitness in a monogamous human population. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68: 135-143.   DOI:10.1007/s00265-013-1630-6   Download PDF

Störmer C, Lummaa V. 2014: Increased mortality exposure within the family rather than individual mortality experiences trigger faster life-history strategies in historic human populations. PloS ONE 9: e83633.   DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0083633   Download PDF

2013

Bolund E, Bouwhuis S, Pettay JE, Lummaa V. 2013: Divergent selection on, but no genetic conflict over female and male timing and rate of reproduction in a human population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280: 20132002.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2013.2002   Download PDF

Courtiol A, Rickard IJ, Lummaa V, Prentice AM, Fulford AJC, Stearns SC. 2013: The demographic transition influences variance in fitness and selection on height and BMI in rural Gambia. Current Biology 23: 884–889.   DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.006   Download PDF

Gillespie DOS, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2013: The effect of maternal age and reproductive history on offspring survival and lifetime reproduction in pre-industrial humans. Evolution 67: 1964–1974.   DOI:10.1111/evo.12078   Download PDF

Hayward AD, Lummaa V. 2013: Testing the evolutionary basis of the predictive adaptive response hypothesis in a preindustrial human population. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 1: 106-117.   DOI:10.1093/emph/eot007   Download PDF

Hayward AD, Rickard IJ, Lummaa V. 2013: The influence of early-life nutrition on mortality and reproductive success during a subsequent famine in a pre-industrial population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A. 110: 13886-13891.   DOI:10.1073/pnas.1301817110   Download PDF

Helle S, Lummaa V. 2013: A trade-off between having many sons and shorter maternal post-reproductive survival in pre-industrial Finland. Biology Letters 9: 20130034.   DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0034   Download PDF

Lummaa V. 2013: Human behavioral ecology. In Princeton Guide to Evolution Edited by Losos, JB. Princeton University Press.   Read more

Maklakov A, Lummaa V. 2013: Evolution of sex differences in lifespan and aging: causes and constraints. BioEssays 35: 717-24.   DOI:10.1002/bies.201300021   Download PDF

Mumby HS, Courtiol A, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2013: Climatic variation and age-specific survival in Asian elephants from Myanmar. Ecology 94: 1131-1141.  DOI:10.1890/12-0834.1   Download PDF

Mumby HS, Courtiol A, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2013: Birth seasonality and calf mortality in a large population of Asian elephants. Ecology & Evolution 3: 3794-3803.  DOI:10.1002/ece3.746   Download PDF

Nitsch A, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2013: Are elder siblings helpers or competitors? Long-term fitness effects of sibling interactions in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 280 (1750).   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2012.2313   Download PDF

2012

Courtiol A, Pettay J, Jokela M, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2012: Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A. 109: 8044-8049.   DOI:10.1073/pnas.1118174109   Download PDF

Hayward AD, Holopainen J, Pettay JE, Lummaa V. 2012: Food and fitness: associations between crop yields and life-history traits in a longitudinally monitored pre-industrial human population. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 4165-4173.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2012.1190   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Gillespie DOS, Lummaa V, Russell AF. 2012: Severe intergenerational reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause. Ecology Letters 15: 1283-1290.  DOI:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01851.x   Download PDF

Liu J, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2012: Maternal risk of breeding failure and life-history shifts during demographic transitions in Finland. PloS ONE 7: e34898.   DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0034898   Download PDF

Mar KU, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V. 2012: Causes and correlates of calf mortality in semi-captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). PloS ONE 7: e32335.  DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0032335   Download PDF

Rickard IJ, Courtiol A, Prentice AM, Fulford AJC, Clutton-Brock TH, Lummaa V. 2012: Intergenerational effects of maternal birth season on offspring size in rural Gambia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 4253-4262.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2012.1363   Download PDF

Rickard IJ, Courtiol A, Lummaa V. 2012: Why is lifetime fertility higher in twinning women, and what does this say about heterogeneity? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 2510-2511.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2012.0191   Download PDF

Rickard IJ, Prentice AM, Fulford AJC, Lummaa V. 2012: Twinning propensity and offspring in utero growth covary in rural African women. Biology Letters 8: 67-70.  DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0598   Download PDF

Robinson MR, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2012: Senescence and age-specific trade-offs between reproduction and survival in female Asian elephants. Ecology Letters 15: 260–266.   DOI:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01735.x   Download PDF

Silva AS, Lummaa V, Muller U, Mazur A, Raymond M, Alvergne A. 2012: Facial attractiveness and reproductive success. Evolution and Human Behavior 33: 491-498.  DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.01.002   Download PDF

2011

Jokela M, Alvergne A, Pollet TV, Lummaa V. 2011: Reproductive behavior and personality traits of the Five Factor Model. European Journal of Personality 25: 487-500.  DOI:10.1002/per.822   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Tremblay M, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2011: Selection on menopause in two pre-modern human populations: No evidence for the Mother Hypothesis. Evolution 65: 476-489.   DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01142.x   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Russell AF. 2011: Selection on male longevity in a monogamous human population: late-life survival brings no additional grandchildren. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 1053-1063.   DOI:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02237.x   Download PDF

Liu J, Lummaa V. 2011: Age at first reproduction and probability of reproductive failure in women. Evolution and Human Behavior 32: 433-443.  DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.10.007   Download PDF

2010

Alvergne A, Jokela J, Lummaa V. 2010: Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A. 277: 2909-2911.   DOI:10.1073/pnas.1001752107   Download PDF

Alvergne A, Jokela J, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2010: Personality and testosterone in men from a high-fertility human population. Personality and Individual Differences 49: 840-844.   DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.006   Download PDF

Alvergne A, Lummaa V. 2010: Response to Carere et al. Human mate preference: inconsistency between data and interpretations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 491-492.   DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2010.06.008   Download PDF

Alvergne A, Lummaa V. 2010: Does the contraceptive pill alter mate-choice in humans? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 171-179.   DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2009.08.003   Download PDF

Gillespie DOS, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2010: Pair-bonding modifies the age-specific intensity of natural selection on human female fecundity. American Naturalist 176: 159-169.   DOI:10.1086/653668   Download PDF

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2010: On the number of sons born and shorter lifespan in historical Sami mothers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 277: 2909-2911.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2009.2114   Download PDF

Jokela M, Rickard IJ, Pettay JP, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2010: Serial monogamy and reproductive success in a contemporary human population. Behavioral Ecology 21: 906-912.   DOI:10.1093/beheco/arq078   Download PDF

Lummaa V. 2010: The costs and consequences of reproduction. In: Homo Novus – A Human without Illusions. Edited by Stoermer, C et al. Springer.   DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-12142-5_9   Download PDF

Rickard IJ, Holopainen J, Helama S, Helle S, Russell AF, Lummaa V 2010: Food availability at birth limited lifetime reproductive success in historical humans. Ecology 91: 3515-3525.   DOI:10.1890/10-0019.1   Download PDF

2009

Faurie C, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2009: Middleborns at disadvantage? Testing birth-order effects on fitness in pre-industrial humans. PloS ONE 4(5): e5680.  DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0005680   Download PDF

Rickard IJ, Lummaa V, Russell AF. 2009: Elder brothers affect the life-history of younger siblings in preindustrial humans: Social consequence or biological cost? Evolution and Human Behavior 30: 49-57.   Download PDF

Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2009: Maternal effects in cooperative breeders: From hymenopterans to humans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 364: 1143-1167.  DOI:10.1098/rstb.2008.0298   Download PDF

2008

Gillespie DOS, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2008: When fecundity does not equal fitness: Evidence of a quantity-quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B- Biological Sciences 275: 713-722.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2007.1000   Download PDF

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2008: Marrying 15 years younger woman maximized men’s evolutionary fitness in historical Sami. Biology Letters 4: 75-77.  DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0538   Download PDF

Lummaa V. 2008: Ihmisen elinkiertojen evoluutio. In: Evoluutio Nyt! Edited by Vuorisalo T & Portin P, WSOY.

Pettay JE, Charmantier A, Wilson AJ, Lummaa V. 2008: Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of pre-industrial Finnish women. Evolution 62: 2297-2304DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00452.x   Download PDF

2007

Rickard IJ, Lummaa V. 2007: The predictive adaptive response and metabolic syndrome – challenges for the hypothesis. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 18: 94-99.   DOI:10.1016/j.tem.2007.02.004   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2007: Selection for long lifespan in men: benefits of grandfathering? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B – Biological Sciences 274: 2437-2444.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2007.0688   Download PDF

Lummaa V. 2007: Life-history theory, longevity and reproduction in humans. In: Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, Edited by Dunbar RIM & Barrett L, Oxford University Press.   DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568308.013.0027   Download PDF

Lummaa V, Pettay JE, Russell AF. 2007: Male twins reduce fitness of female co-twins in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A. 104: 10915-10920.  DOI:10.1073/pnas.0605875104   Download PDF

Pettay JE, Helle S, Jokela J, Lummaa V. 2007: Natural selection on female life-history traits in relation to socio-economic class in pre-industrial human populations. PloS ONE 2(7): e606.   DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0000606.t001   Download PDF

Rickard IJ, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2007: Producing sons reduces lifetime reproductive success of subsequent offspring in pre-industrial Finns. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B- Biological Sciences 274: 2981-2988.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2007.1051   Download PDF

2005

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2005: Are reproductive and somatic senescence coupled in humans? Late, but not early, reproduction correlated with longevity in historical Sami women. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B- Biological Sciences 272: 29-37.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2004.2944   Download PDF

Pettay JE, Kruuk LEB, Jokela J, Lummaa V. 2005: Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in pre-industrial humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A. 102: 2838-2843.   DOI:10.1073/pnas.0406709102   Download PDF

2004

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2004: Accelerated immunosenescence in pre-industrial twin mothers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of U.S.A. 101: 12391-12396.   DOI:10.1073/pnas.0402215101   Download PDF

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2004: Selection for increased brood size in pre-industrial humans. Evolution 52: 430-436.   Permanent link   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Helle S, Tremblay M, Russell AF. 2004: Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women. Nature 428: 178-181.  DOI:10.1038/nature02367   Download PDF

Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Russell AF. 2004: Menopause: Why does fertility end before life? Climacteric 7: 1-5.   DOI:10.1080/13697130400012205   Download PDF

Lummaa V. 2004: Church records advancing evolutionary biology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution: Book Reviews 19(6):286-287.   DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2004.03.028   Download PDF

2003

Lummaa V. 2003: Early developmental conditions and reproductive success in humans: downstream effects of pre-natal famine, birth weight and timing of birth. American Journal of Human Biology 15: 370-379.   DOI:10.1002/ajhb.10155   Download PDF

Lummaa V, Tremblay M. 2003: Month of birth predicted reproductive success and fitness in pre-modern Canadian women. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270: 2355-2361.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2003.2507   Download PDF

2002

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2002: Sons reduced maternal longevity in pre-industrial humans. Science 296: 1085.   DOI:10.1126/science.1070106   Download PDF

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2002: Effect of producing sons on maternal longevity in pre-modern populations – Response. Science 298: U1-U2.  DOI:10.1126/science.298.5592.317a   Download PDF

Lummaa V, Clutton-Brock TH. 2002: Early development, survival and reproduction in humans. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:141-147.  DOI:10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02414-4   Download PDF

2001

Lummaa V. 2001: Reproductive investment in pre-industrial humans: consequences of offspring number, gender and survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 268: 1977-1983.   DOI:10.1098/rspb.2001.1786   Download PDF

Lummaa V, Jokela J, Haukioja E. 2001: Gender difference in benefits of twinning in pre-industrial humans: boys did not pay. Journal of Animal Ecology 70: 739-746.  DOI:10.1098/rspb.2001.178610.1046/j.0021-8790.2001.00537.x   Download PDF

Tullberg BS, Lummaa V. 2001: Induced abortion rate in modern Sweden falls with age, but rises again before menopause. Evolution & Human Behavior 22: 1-10.  DOI:10.1016/S1090-5138(00)00057-X   Download PDF

2000

Ranta E, Lummaa V, Kaitala V, Merilä J. 2000: Spatial dynamics of adaptive sex ratios. Ecology Letters 3: 30-34.   DOI:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00112.x   Download PDF

1999

Lummaa V. 1999: Adaptive and nonadaptive variation in human life-history traits. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis AII: 124, Painosalama Oy, Turku, Finland.

Lummaa V, Haukioja E, Lemmetyinen R. 1999: Does polyovulation counterbalance a high abortion rate in humans? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 1: 806-808.  DOI:10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00080.x   Download PDF

1998

Lummaa V, Haukioja E, Lemmetyinen R, Pikkola M. 1998: Natural selection on human twinning. Nature 394: 533-534.   DOI:10.1038/28977   Download PDF

Lummaa V, Lemmetyinen R, Haukioja E, Pikkola M. 1998: Seasonality of births in Homo sapiens in pre-industrial Finland: maximisation of offspring survivorship? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 11: 147-157.

Lummaa V, Merilä J, Kause A. 1998: Adaptive sex ratio variation in pre-industrial human (Homo sapiens) populations? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265: 563-568.

Lummaa V, Vuorisalo T, Barr R, Lehtonen L. 1998: Why cry? Adaptive significance of intensive crying in human infants. Evolution & Human Behavior 19: 193-202.

 

NON-PEER-REVIEVED SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES AND PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

Nenko, I, Hayward AD, Simons MJP, Lummaa V. 2015: Does early-life environment cause differences in costs of reproduction in a pre-industrial human population? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 234-235.

Courtiol A, Rickard IJ, Lummaa V, Prentice AM, Fulford AJC, Stearns SC. 2013: Changes in selection on height and BMI during the demographic transition: the case of rural Gambia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150: 104-104.

Holopainen J, Gregow H, Helama S, Kubin E, Lummaa V, Terhivuo J. 2012: Suomen kasvifenologisista havainnoista 1700-luvun puolivälistä nykypäivään. (History of Finnish plant phenological observations since the 1750s). Sorbifolia 43 (2): 51–66.   Read more

Rickard, IJ, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2007: Maternal reproductive history and the survival and fertility of their children: a study of a preindustrial Finnish population. Early Human Development 83: S175

Lummaa V. 2004: Church records advancing evolutionary biology. Review of Consanguinity, inbreeding, and genetic drift in Italy by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Antonio Moroni and Gianna Zei. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 23-24.

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2002: Sons reduced longevity of pre-industrial mothers. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 61: 161.

Lummaa V, Tremblay M. 2002: Timing of birth and reproductive performance in pre-industrial Canadians. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 61: 154.

Lummaa V, Clutton-Brock TH. 2002: Early development and determinants of reproductive success in humans. American Journal of Human Biology 14: 51.

Lummaa V. 2001: Turning piles of bones into living humans. Review of Eckhardt RB: Human Paleobiology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14:  522.