Samuli
Helle
Docent, Department of Biology
Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
Ph.D., Docent
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Areas of expertise
Evolutionary ecology
demography
epidemiology
statistics
fishing.
Research
My main research interest is human evolutionary demography in preindustrial populations. In my research I use historical demographic data from northern Fennoscandia that contain people practicing traditional subsistence modes as well small-scale agriculture and trading. This data set is accompanied with wealth of information on how those people lived and on their environmental conditions. I also work sporadically with other study systems related to evolutionary psychology, evolutionary medicine and behavioral ecology.
Publications
Digit length ratio (2D:4D) and variation in key life-history traits and fitness in contemporary Finnish women (2010)
Behavioral Ecology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Food availability at birth limited reproductive success in historical humans (2010)
Ecology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
On the number of sons born and shorter lifespan in historical Sami mothers (2010)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))