2013:

Courtiol A, Rickard IJ, Lummaa V, Prentice A, Fulford A, Stearns SC 2013 The demographic transition influences variance in fitness and selection on height and BMI in rural Gambia. Current Biology, in press.

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, in press (pre-print online).

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, in press.

Helle S, Lummaa V 2013 A trade-off between having many sons and shorter maternal post-reproductive survival in preindustrial Finland. Biology Letters, 9 (2).

Lummaa V 2013 Human behavioral ecology. In Princeton Guide to Evolution Edited by Losos, J et al. Princeton University Press, in press.

Maklakov AA, Lummaa V 2013 Sexual conflict constrains adaptive sexual dimorphism in lifespan and aging. BioEssays, accepted with minor revision.

Mumby HS, Courtiol A, Mar KU, Lummaa V 2013 Climatic variation and age-specific survival in Asian elephants from Myanmar. Ecology, in press (pre-print online).

Nitsch A, Faurie F, Lummaa V 2013: Are elder siblings helpers or competitors? Antagonistic fitness effects of sibling interactions in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1750). 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. 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 B: Biological Sciences 279(1745): 4165-4173. PDF

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. PDF

Lahdenperä M, Gillespie DOS, Lummaa V, Russell AF 2012: Severe intergenerational reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause. Ecology Letters 15: 1283-90. PDF

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), e34898. PDF

Mar KU, Lahdenperä M & Lummaa V 2012 Causes and correlates of calf mortality in semi-captive Asian elephants (Elaphas maximus). PLOS One 7 (3), e32335. 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 B: Biological Sciences 279 (1745): 4253-4265. PDF

Rickard IJ, Courtiol A & Lummaa V 2012 Why is lifetime fertility higher in twinning women? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 2510-2011. 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. 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. PDF

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: 491–498. 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. 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. 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. PDF

Liu J & Lummaa V 2011 Age at first reproduction and probability of reproductive failure in women. Evolution and Human Behavior 32: 433-443. 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. 107: 11745-11750. PDF

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. PDF

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

Gillespie DOS, Lahdenperä M, Russell AF & Lummaa V 2010 Pair-bonding modifies the age-specific intensity of natural selection on human female fecundity. American Naturalist 176: 159-169. 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 177: 2909-2911.

Helle S 2010 Does second-to-fourth digit length ratio (2D:4D) predict age at menarche in women? American Journal of Human Biology 22: 418-420.

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

Lummaa V 2010 The costs of reproduction. In Homo Novus – A Human without Illusions. Edited by Stoermer, C et al. Springer.

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: 3515-3525. 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. PDF

Helle S 2009 Solar activity during gestation does not affect human lifespan: evidence from national data. Biogerontology. PDF

Helle S, Helama S & Lertola K. 2009 Evolutionary ecology of human birth sex ratio under the compound influence of climate change, famine, economic crises and wars. Journal of Animal Ecology 78, 1226-1233. PDF

Helle S 2009 Women with long menstrual cycles have more daughters. Epidemiology 20, 312-313. PDF

Helle S & Laaksonen T 2009 Latitudinal gradient in 2D:4D. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 38, 1-3. PDF

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

Russell AF & Lummaa V 2009 Maternal effects in cooperative breeders: From hymenopterans to humans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 364, 1143-1167. 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: Biological Sciences 275, 713-722. PDF

Helle S & Lilley T 2008 Maternal 2nd to 4th digit ratio does not predict lifetime offspring sex ratio at birth. American Journal of Human Biology. 20, 700-703. PDF

Helle S 2008 Why twin pregnancies are more successful at advanced than young maternal age? A potential role of 'terminal reproductive investment'. Human Reproduction. 23, 2387-2389. PDF

Helle S, Käär P, Helama S & Jokela J 2008 Do humans adjust offspring sex according to local operational sex ratio? Evolutionary Ecology Research 10, 775-785. PDF

Helle S 2008 Height, weight, body mass index and offspring sex at birth in contemporary Finnish women. Journal of Theoretical Biology 252, 773-775. PDF

Helle S 2008 A trade-off between reproduction and growth in contemporary Finnish women. Evolution and Human Behavior 29, 189-195. PDF

Helle S, Helama S & Jokela J 2008 Temperature-related birth sex ratio bias in historical Sami: warm years bring more sons. Biology Letters, 4, 60-62. 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. PDF

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

Pettay JE, Charmantier A, Wilson AJ and Lummaa V 2008 Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of pre-industrial Finnish women. Evolution, 62, 2297-2304. PDF

Rickard IJ 2008 Offspring are lighter at birth and smaller in adulthood when born after a brother versus a sister in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29, 196-200. PDF

Rickard IJ 2008 Kanazawa's 'Generarized Trivers-Willard hypothesis' and the heritability of offspring sex ratio. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 4, 255-260. PDF

2007:

Helle S & Helama S 2007 Climatic variability and the population dynamics of historical hunter-gatherers: The case of Sami of Northern Finland. American Journal of Human Biology 49, 844-853 PDF

Lahdenperä M, Russell AF & Lummaa V 2007 Selection for long lifespan in men: benefits of grandfathering? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 274, 2437-2444. 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.

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. PDF

Pettay JE, Helle S, Jokela J & Lummaa V 2007 Wealth class-specific natural selection on female life-history traits in historical human populations. PLOS ONE 2(7): e606. PDF

Rickard IJ & Lummaa V 2007 The predictive adaptive response and metabolic syndrome – challenges for the hypothesis. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 18: 94-99. 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, Series B PDF

2005:

Helle, S, Lummaa, V & Jokela, J 2005: Late, but not early, reproduction correlated with longevity in historical Sami women. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 272: 29-37. 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. 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. PDF

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

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

2003:

Lummaa V 2003 Reproductive success and early developmental conditions in humans: downstream effects of pre-natal famine, birth weight and timing of birth. American Journal of Human Biology 15: 370-379. 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. PDF

2002:

Helle S, Käär P & Jokela J 2002 Human longevity and early reproduction in pre-industrial Sami populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15: 803-807. PDF

Helle S, Lummaa V & Jokela J 2002 Sons reduced maternal longevity in pre-industrial humans. Science 296: 1085. PDF

Helle S, Lummaa V & Jokela J 2002 Effect of producing sons on maternal longevity in pre-modern populations - Response. Science 298: U1-U2. PDF

Helle S, Lummaa V & Jokela J 2002: Sons Reduced Longevity of Pre-Industrial Mothers. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 61: 161.

Lummaa V & Clutton-Brock TH 2002 Early development, survival and reproduction in humans. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:141-147. PDF

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

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

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. 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. 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. PDF

2000:

Lummaa, V 2000 Natural or cultural selection? Aurora 3/2000: 26-29.

Lummaa, V 2000 Luonnonvalinnan vai kulttuurin tuotteita? Kirkonkirjat kertovat suomalaisten lisääntymismenestyksestä 200 vuotta sitten. Tieteessä Tapahtuu 3/2000: 37-40.

Ranta E, Lummaa V, Kaitala V & Merilä J 2000 Spatial dynamics of adaptive sex ratios. Ecology Letters 3: 30.34. PDF

1999:

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

1998:

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

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. PDF

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. PDF