Virpi Lummaa

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1 Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women. Nature 2004 4.91
2 Sons reduced maternal longevity in preindustrial humans. Science 2002 2.32
3 Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 2.07
4 Are reproductive and somatic senescence coupled in humans? Late, but not early, reproduction correlated with longevity in historical Sami women. Proc Biol Sci 2005 1.80
5 Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans? Trends Ecol Evol 2009 1.79
6 The demographic transition influences variance in fitness and selection on height and BMI in rural Gambia. Curr Biol 2013 1.60
7 Natural selection on female life-history traits in relation to socio-economic class in pre-industrial human populations. PLoS One 2007 1.44
8 When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans. Proc Biol Sci 2008 1.43
9 Senescence and age-specific trade-offs between reproduction and survival in female Asian elephants. Ecol Lett 2012 1.26
10 Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 1.23
11 Marrying women 15 years younger maximized men's evolutionary fitness in historical Sami. Biol Lett 2008 1.20
12 Influence of early-life nutrition on mortality and reproductive success during a subsequent famine in a preindustrial population. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 1.19
13 The predictive adaptive response and metabolic syndrome: challenges for the hypothesis. Trends Endocrinol Metab 2007 1.15
14 Food availability at birth limited reproductive success in historical humans. Ecology 2010 1.14
15 Severe intergenerational reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause. Ecol Lett 2012 1.13
16 Evolution of sex differences in lifespan and aging: causes and constraints. Bioessays 2013 1.10
17 Producing sons reduces lifetime reproductive success of subsequent offspring in pre-industrial Finns. Proc Biol Sci 2007 1.06
18 Maternal effects in cooperative breeders: from hymenopterans to humans. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2009 1.05
19 Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 1.04
20 Accelerated immunosenescence in preindustrial twin mothers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 1.04
21 Causes and correlates of calf mortality in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). PLoS One 2012 1.02
22 The effect of maternal age and reproductive history on offspring survival and lifetime reproduction in preindustrial humans. Evolution 2013 1.00
23 Climatic variation and age-specific survival in Asian elephants from Myanmar. Ecology 2013 0.98
24 Birth seasonality and calf mortality in a large population of Asian elephants. Ecol Evol 2013 0.98
25 Middleborns disadvantaged? Testing birth-order effects on fitness in pre-industrial Finns. PLoS One 2009 0.98
26 Selection for increased brood size in historical human populations. Evolution 2004 0.95
27 Testing the evolutionary basis of the predictive adaptive response hypothesis in a preindustrial human population. Evol Med Public Health 2013 0.95
28 Selection on menopause in two premodern human populations: no evidence for the Mother Hypothesis. Evolution 2010 0.91
29 Food and fitness: associations between crop yields and life-history traits in a longitudinally monitored pre-industrial human population. Proc Biol Sci 2012 0.90
30 Divergent selection on, but no genetic conflict over, female and male timing and rate of reproduction in a human population. Proc Biol Sci 2013 0.89
31 Pair-bonding modifies the age-specific intensities of natural selection on human female fecundity. Am Nat 2010 0.86
32 A trade-off between having many sons and shorter maternal post-reproductive survival in pre-industrial Finland. Biol Lett 2013 0.85
33 Maternal risk of breeding failure remained low throughout the demographic transitions in fertility and age at first reproduction in Finland. PLoS One 2012 0.85
34 Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women. Evolution 2008 0.85
35 Effects of the demographic transition on the genetic variances and covariances of human life-history traits. Evolution 2015 0.82
36 Intergenerational effects of maternal birth season on offspring size in rural Gambia. Proc Biol Sci 2012 0.80
37 On the number of sons born and shorter lifespan in historical Sami mothers. Proc Biol Sci 2010 0.78
38 Are elder siblings helpers or competitors? Antagonistic fitness effects of sibling interactions in humans. Proc Biol Sci 2013 0.77
39 Twinning propensity and offspring in utero growth covary in rural African women. Biol Lett 2011 0.75
40 The effect of socio-economic status and food availability on first birth interval in a pre-industrial human population. Proc Biol Sci 2013 0.75
41 Culled males, infant mortality and reproductive success in a pre-industrial Finnish population. Proc Biol Sci 2015 0.75
42 Why is lifetime fertility higher in twinning women? Proc Biol Sci 2012 0.75