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2024:

Laato J, Kanerva J, Loehr J, Lummaa V, Ginter F. 2024: Extracting Social Connections from Finnish Karelian refugee interviews using LLMs. CHR 2024: Computational Humanities Research Conference, December 46, 2024, Aarhus, Denmark.

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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

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

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

2023:

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

Kauppi JJ, Chapman SN, Pettay JE, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Loehr J. 2023: Sex, age, and family structure influence dispersal behaviour after a forced migration. Evolutionary Human Sciences 5, e21.

DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2023.16

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. Behavioural Ecology 34(3), 446–456.

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arad013

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

Nitsch A, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2023: Sibling competition, dispersal and fitness outcomes in humans. Scientific Reports 13, 7539.

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33700-3

Ross CT, Hooper PL, Smith JE +100... Pettay J, Lummaa V, Helle S ... et al. 2023: Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. PNAS 120 (22) e222012412.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220124120

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

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. Proc. R. Soc. B. 289:1967.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2298

Rickard I, Vullioud C, Rousset F, Postma E, Helle S, Lummaa V, Kylli R, Pettay J, 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: 2886.

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30366-9

Ukonaho S, Lummaa V, Briga M. 2022: The Long-Term Success of Mandatory Vaccination Laws After Implementing the First Vaccination Campaign in 19th Century Rural Finland. American Journal of Epidemiology, kwac048.

DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwac048

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.

DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23669

2021:

Chapman SN, Lahdenperä M, Pettay JE, 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

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. Proc. R. Soc. B 288: 20210356.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0356

Nenko I, Chapman SN, 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.

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.002

Pettay JE, Lummaa V, Lynch R, Loehr R. 2021: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland. Behavioural Ecology, arab007.

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arab007

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. Digital Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History, 129. Fridlund M, Oiva M, Paju P (eds.).

DOI: 10.33134/HUP-5

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

Pettay JE, Chapman SN, Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V. 2020: Family dynamics and age-related patterns in marriage probability. Evolution and Human Behavior.

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.09.001

2019:

Chapman SN, Pettay JE, Lummaa V, Lahdenperä M. 2019: Limits to fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women. Current Biology.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.12.052

Laisk T, Tšuiko O, Jatsenko T, Hõrak 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(1): 34-50.

DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmy031

Lynch R, Lummaa V, Panchanathan K, Middleton K, Rotkirch A, Danielsbacka M, O’Brien D, Loehr J. 2019: Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees. Nature Human Behaviour vol 3 (April 2019): 337-345..

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0542-5

Lynch R, 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 Behaviour.

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.06.001

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.

DOI: 10.1038/s41576-018-0012-3

Chapman SN, Pettay JE, Lummaa V, Lahdenperä M. 2018: Limited support for the X-linked grandmother hypothesis in pre-industrial Finland. Biology Letters.

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0651

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

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.

DOI: 10.1111/ele.12888

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.

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.11.004

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

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, arx168.

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arx168

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

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.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1164

Chapman SN, Lahdenperä M, Pettay JE, Lummaa V. 2017: Changes in length of grandparenthood in Finland 1790-1959. Finnish Yearbook of Population Research.

DOI: 10.23979/fypr.65346

Liu J, Duan C, Lummaa V. 2017: Parent-offspring conflict over family size in current China. American Journal of Human Biology.

DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22946

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.

DOI:10.23979/fypr.65212

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.

DOI: 10.1007/s10519-016-9803-5

Bolund E, Hayward A, Lummaa V. 2016: Life History Evolution, Human. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 2.

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00097-4

Bolund E, Lummaa V, Smith KR, Hanson HA, 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

Hayward AD, Rigby FL, Lummaa V. 2016: Early-life disease exposure and associations with adult survival, cause of death, and reproductive success in preindustrial humans. PNAS 113:32.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519820113

Lahdenperä M, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2016: Nearby grandmother enhances calf survival and reproduction in Asian elephants. Scientific Reports 6, Article 27213.

DOI: 10.1038/srep27213

Nitsch A, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2016: Sibship effects on dispersal behaviour in a pre-industrial human population. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12922

Pettay JE, Lahdenperä M, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2016: Costly reproductive competition between co-resident females in humans. Behavioural Ecology 27(6):1601-1608.

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arw088

Scranton K, Lummaa V, Stearns SC. 2016: The importance of the 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

2015:

Hayward AD, Nenko I, Lummaa V. 2015: Early-life reproduction is associated with increased mortality risk but enhanced lifetime fitness in pre-industrial humans. Proc. R. Soc. B: 282(1804).

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.3053

Bolund E, Hayward A, Pettay JE, Lummaa V. 2015: Effects of the demographic transition on the genetic variances and covariances of human life-history traits. Evolution 69-3:747–755.

DOI: 10.1111/evo.12598

Bruckner T, Helle S, Bolund E, Lummaa V. 2015: Culled males, infant mortality and reproductive success in a pre-industrial Finnish population. Proc. R. Soc. B 282(1799).

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0835

Hayward AD, Lummaa V, Bazykin GA. 2015: Fitness consequences of advanced ancestral age over three generations in humans. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0128197.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128197

2014:

Alvergne A, Lummaa V. 2014: Ecological variation in wealth–fertility relationships in Mongolia: the ‘central theoretical problem of sociobiology’ not a problem after all? Proc. R. Soc. B 281: 20141733.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1733

Berg V, Lahdenperä M, Rotkirch A, Jokela M. 2014: Personality and long-term reproductive success measured by the number of grandchildren. Evolution and Human Behavior 35(6).

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.07.006

Helle S, Brommer JE, Pettay JE, Lummaa V, Enbuske M, Jokela J. 2014: Evolutionary demography of agricultural expansion in preindustrial northern Finland. Proc. R. Soc. B 281: 20141559.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1559

Jokela J, 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

Lahdenperä M, Mar KU, Lummaa V. 2014: Reproductive cessation and post-reproductive lifespan in Asian elephants and pre-industrial humans Frontiers in Zoology 11:54.

DOI: 10.1186/s12983-014-0054-0

Liu J, Lummaa V. 2014: An evolutionary approach to change of status–fertility relationship in human fertility transition. Behavioral Ecology 25(1):102-109.

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art091

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. Proc. R. Soc. B 281:20132319.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2319

Nitsch A, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2014: Alloparenting in humans: fitness consequences of aunts and uncles on survival in historical Finland. Behavioral Ecology 25(2):424–433.

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art126

Pettay JE, Rotkirch A, Courtiol A, Jokela M, Lummaa V. 2014: Effects of remarriage after widowhood on long-term fitness in a monogamous historical human population. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 68(1):135-143.

DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1630-6

Störmer C, Lummaa V. 2014: Increased mortality exposure within the family rather than individual mortality experiences triggers faster life-history strategies in historic human populations. PLoS ONE 9(1) e83633.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083633

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. Proc R Soc B 280: 20132002.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2002

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

Gillespie DOS, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2013: The effect of maternal age and reproductive history on offspring survival and lifetime reproduction in preindustrial humans. Evolution 11.

DOI: 10.1111/evo.12078

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 pp. 106–117 .

DOI: 10.1093/emph/eot007

Hayward AD, Rickard IJ, Lummaa V. 2013: Influence of early-life nutrition on mortality and reproductive success during a subsequent famine in a preindustrial population. PNAS 110(34):13886-13891.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301817110

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

Maklakov AA, Lummaa V. 2013: Evolution of sex differences in lifespan and aging: Causes and constraints. Bioessays 35(8):717-24.

DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300021

Nitsch A, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2013: Are elder siblings helpers or competitors? Antagonistic fitness effects of sibling interactions in humans. Proc. R. Soc. B 280.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2313

Lummaa V. 2013: Human behavioral ecology. In Princeton Guide to Evolution Edited by Losos, BJ. Princeton University Press. Princeton Guide to Evolution, Edition: First Chapter: Human Behavioral Ecology. Princeton University Press, pp.683-689.

2012:

Courtiol A, Pettay J, Jokela M, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2012: Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population. PNAS 109(21):8044-8049.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118174109

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. Proc. R. Soc. B 279, 4165-4173.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1190

Holopainen J, Gregow H, Helama S, Kubin E, Lummaa V, Terhivuo J. 2012: Suomen kasvifenologisista havainnoista 1700-luvun puolivälistä nykypäivään. Sorbifolia 43(2):51-66.

Lahdenperä M, Gillespie DOS, Lummaa V, Russell AF. 2012: Severe intergenerational reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause. Ecology Letters 15(11):1283–1290.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01851.x

Liu J, Rotkirch A, Lummaa V. 2012: Maternal risk of breeding failure remained low throughout the demographic transitions in fertility and age at first reproduction in Finland. PLoS ONE 7(4).

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034898

Rickard IJ, Courtiol A, Lummaa V. 2012: Why is lifetime fertility higher in twinning women? Proc. R. Soc. B 279:2510-2511.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0191

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. Proc. R. Soc. B 279:4253-4262.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1363

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

Silva AS, Lummaa V, Muller U, Mazur A, Raymond M, Alvergne A. 2012: Facial attractiveness and fertility in populations with low levels of modern birth control. Evolution and Human Behavior 33(5):491–498.

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.01.002

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

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(5):1053-63.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02237.x

Lahdenperä M, Tremblay M, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2011: Selection on menopause in two premodern human populations: no evidence for the mother hypothesis. Evolution 65(2):309–612.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01142.x

Liu J, Lummaa V. 2011: Age at first reproduction and probability of reproductive failure in women. Theoretical Contribution. Evolution and Human Behavior 32:433–443.

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.10.007

2010:

Alvergne A, Jokela J, Faurie C, Lummaa V. 2010: Personality and testosterone in men from a high-fertility population. Personality and Individual Differences 49(8):840-844.

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.006

Alvergne A, Lummaa V. 2010: Human mate preference: inconsistency between data and interpretations. Response to Carere et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:491-492.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.06.008

Alvergne A, Jokela J, Lummaa V. 2010: Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population. PNAS 107(26):11745–11750.

10.1073/pnas.1001752107

Alvergne A, Lummaa V. 2010: Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25(3):171–179.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.08.003

Gillespie DOS, Lahdenperä M, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2010: Pair-bonding modifies the age-specific intensities of natural selection on human female fecundity. The American Naturalist 176(2).

DOI: 10.1086/653668

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2010: On the number of sons born and shorter lifespan in historical Sami mothers. Proc. R. Soc. B 277:2909–2911.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2114

Jokela M, Rotkirch A, Rickard IJ, Pettay J, Lummaa V. 2010: Serial monogamy increases reproductive success in men but not in women. Behavioral Ecology.

DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq078

Lummaa V. 2010: Costs and consequences of reproduction. HomoNovus - A Human Without Illusions 111-126.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12142-5_9

Rickard IJ, Holopainen J, Helama S, Helle S, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2010: Food availability at birth limited reproductive success in historical humans. Ecology 91(12):3515–3525.

DOI: 10.1890/10-0019.1

2009:

Faurie C, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2009: Middleborns disadvantaged? Testing birth-order effects on fitness in pre-industrial Finns. PLoS ONE 4(5): e5680.

DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0005680

Rickard IJ, Lummaa V, Russel 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.

DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.08.001

Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2009: Maternal effects in cooperative breeders: from hymenopterans to humans. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364:1143–1167.

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0298

2008:

Gillespie DOS, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2008: When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans. Proc. R. Soc. B 275:713–722.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1000

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2008: Marrying women 15 years younger maximized men’s evolutionary fitness in historical Sami. Biology Letters 4:75–77.

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0538

Pettay JE, Charmantier A, Wilson AJ, Lummaa V. 2008: Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women. Evolution 62-9: 2297–2304.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00452.x

2007:

Lahdenperä M, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2007: Selection for long lifespan in men: benefits of grandfathering? Proc. R. Soc. B 274:2437–2444.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0688

Lummaa V, Pettay JE, Russell AF. 2007: Male twins reduce fitness of female co-twins in humans. PNAS 104(26):10915-10920.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605875104

Lummaa V. 2007: Life history theory, reproduction and longevity in humans. Oxford Handbook of evolutionary psychology 397-414.

DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568308.013.0027

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 7:e606.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000606.t001

Rickard IJ, Lummaa V. 2007: The predictive adaptive response and metabolic syndrome: Challenges for the hypothesis. Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism 18(3): 94-99.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2007.02.004

Rickard IJ, Russell AF, Lummaa V. 2007: Producing sons reduces lifetime reproductive success of subsequent offspring in pre-industrial Finns. Proc. R. Soc. B 274:2981–2988.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1051

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. Proc. R. Soc. B 272:29–37.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2944

Pettay JE, Kruuk LEB, Jokela J, Lummaa V. 2005: Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans. PNAS 102(8):2838-2843.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406709102

2004:

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2004: Selection for increased brood size in historical human populations. Evolution 58(2):430–436.

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2004: Accelerated immunosenescence in preindustrial twin mothers. PNAS 101(33):12391–12396.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0402215101

Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Helle S, Tremblay M, Russell AF. 2004: Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women. Nature 428(11):178-181.

DOI: 10.1038/nature02367

Lahdenperä M, Lummaa V, Russell AF. 2004: Menopause: why does fertility end before life? Climacteric 7:327–332.

DOI: 10.1080/13697130400012205

Lummaa V. 2004: Church records advancing evolutionary biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution: Book Reviews 19(6):286-287.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.03.028

2003:

Lummaa V. 2003: Early developmental conditions and reproductive success in humans: Downstream effects of prenatal famine, birthweight, and timing of birth. American Journal of Human Biology 15:370–379.

DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.10155

Lummaa V, Tremblay M. 2003: Month of birth predicted reproductive success and fitness in pre-modern Canadian women. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270:2355–2361.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2507

2002:

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2002: Effect of producing sons on maternal longevity in premodern populations. Science 298(5592):317.

DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5592.317a

Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. 2002: Sons reduced maternal longevity in preindustrial humans. Science 296(5570):1085.

DOI: 10.1126/science.1070106

Lummaa V, Clutton-Brock TH. 2002: Early development, survival and reproduction in humans. TREE 17(3):141-147.

DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02414-4

2001:

Lummaa V. 2001: Reproductive investment in pre-industrial humans: the consequences of offspring number, gender and survival. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268:1977-1983.

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1786

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

Tullberg BS, Lummaa V. 2001: Induced abortion ratio in modern Sweden falls with age, but rises again before menopause. Evolution and Human Behavior 22:1-10.

DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(00)00057-X

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

1999:

Lummaa V, Haukioja E, Lemmetyinen R. 1999: Does polyovulation counterbalance a high abortion rate in humans? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12(4):806-808.

DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00080.x

1998:

Lummaa V, Haukioja E, Lemmetyinen R, Pikkola M. 1998: Natural selection on human twinning. Nature 394:533-534.

DOI: 10.1038/28977