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.2021.111629. Download 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/s41467-022-30366-9. Download 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: 2297-2304. DOI: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.