New Paper: Sex differences in adult mortality rate mediated by early-life conditions | Page 2 | human-life-history.science

Figure 3a+b, from Griffin et al. 2017

Our latest paper shows that early-life environment is associated with sex differences in adult mortality and expected lifespan. Out now in Ecology Letters:
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/ele.12888

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Virpi Lummaa and the group got awarded a grant from Kone Foundation: MigrantLives

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Apply for a postdoc position: social networks, fertility and ageing in humans

1–2 Postdoctoral Researchers to the NetResilience Consortium

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Ketola, Briga, Honkola and Lummaa published in Proc R Soc B about infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland

Town population size and structuring into villages and households drive infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland

New paper out by Pettay et al: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland

Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland

Simon Chapman et al. published in Scientific Reports

Offspring fertility and grandchild survival enhanced by maternal grandmothers in a pre-indu

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Congratulations to Simon for successfully defending his thesis!

New paper in Nature Communications by Robert Lynch et al: Child volunteers in a women's paramilitary organization in World War II have accelerated reproductive schedules

Robert Lynch, Virpi Lummaa, Michael Briga, Simon N. Chapman & John Loehr, Nature Communications (2020) 11:2377.

New paper in Evolution and Human Behaviour by Pettay et al. in press

Family dynamics and age-related patterns in marriage probability