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Natural selection on human twinning

Virpi Lummaa
Erkki Haukioja
Mirja Pikkola
Research06 Aug 1998
Nature

Volume: 394, P: 533-534
Publisher Correction: Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants

Mirkka Lahdenperä
Khyne U. Mar
Virpi Lummaa
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access28 Aug 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1
Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants

Wild Asian elephants have been and continue to be captured to supplement captive populations. Here, Lahdenperä et al. use records from Myanmar timber elephants to show that wild-caught elephants have increased mortality compared to captive-born elephants for many years after capture.

Mirkka Lahdenperä
Khyne U. Mar
Virpi Lummaa
ResearchOpen Access07 Aug 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-10
Reply to: Maternal capacity, twinning and fertility: the last birth matters

Alexandre Courtiol
Colin Vullioud
Ian J. Rickard
ResearchOpen Access30 Sept 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-4
Author Correction: Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe

Ian J. Rickard
Colin Vullioud
Alexandre Courtiol
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access25 Nov 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1
Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women

Mirkka Lahdenperä
Virpi Lummaa
Andrew F. Russell
Research11 Mar 2004
Nature

Volume: 428, P: 178-181
Child volunteers in a women's paramilitary organization in World War II have accelerated reproductive schedules

Life history theory predicts that females will adjust reproductive timing in response to environmental challenges. Here the authors show that young girls exposed to higher mortality rates during war give birth earlier and more often than their peers who were not exposed to these conditions.

Robert Lynch
Virpi Lummaa
John Loehr
ResearchOpen Access12 May 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-10
Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe

The question of whether women who produce twins are more fertile than other women has been debated. Here, the authors analyze a large dataset of pre-industrial birth outcomes and find evidence against the idea of higher fertility and instead that more births lead to more twinning opportunities.

Ian J. Rickard
Colin Vullioud
Alexandre Courtiol
ResearchOpen Access24 May 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-12
Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees

Evacuees who intermarry and remain in the host society gain socioeconomic benefits but suffer reduced fertility. This suggests that integration involves trade-offs between within-group ‘bonding’ social networks and between-group ‘bridging’ networks

Robert Lynch
Virpi Lummaa
John Loehr
Research25 Feb 2019
Nature Human Behaviour

Volume: 3, P: 337-345
The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection

The authors review the changes in life history traits brought forth by the Industrial Revolution and the evidence for antagonistic pleiotropic effects, whereby genetic variants associated with higher fitness in the past now predispose to diseases such as cancer and coronary artery disease.

Stephen Corbett
Alexandre Courtiol
Stephen Stearns
Reviews09 May 2018
Nature Reviews Genetics

Volume: 19, P: 419-430
Sibling competition, dispersal and fitness outcomes in humans

Aïda Nitsch
Charlotte Faurie
Virpi Lummaa
ResearchOpen Access09 May 2023
Scientific Reports

Volume: 13, P: 1-13
Offspring fertility and grandchild survival enhanced by maternal grandmothers in a pre-industrial human society

Simon N. Chapman
Mirkka Lahdenperä
Virpi Lummaa
ResearchOpen Access11 Feb 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-10
Handler familiarity helps to improve working performance during novel situations in semi-captive Asian elephants

Océane Liehrmann
Jennie A. H. Crawley
Virpi Lummaa
ResearchOpen Access29 Jul 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-10
Taming age mortality in semi-captive Asian elephants

Jennie A. H. Crawley
Mirkka Lahdenperä
Virpi Lummaa
ResearchOpen Access05 Feb 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-8
Demographic and reproductive associations with nematode infection in a long-lived mammal

Carly L. Lynsdale
Nay Oo Mon
Virpi Lummaa
ResearchOpen Access08 Jun 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-11
Nearby grandmother enhances calf survival and reproduction in Asian elephants

Mirkka Lahdenperä
Khyne U. Mar
Virpi Lummaa
ResearchOpen Access10 Jun 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-10
Reduced costs of reproduction in females mediate a shift from a male-biased to a female-biased lifespan in humans

Elisabeth Bolund
Virpi Lummaa
Alexei A. Maklakov
ResearchOpen Access18 Apr 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-9
Elephants born in the high stress season have faster reproductive ageing

Hannah S. Mumby
Khyne U. Mar
Virpi Lummaa
ResearchOpen Access14 Sept 2015
Scientific Reports

Volume: 5, P: 1-11

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