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Risk-taking incentives predict aggression heuristics in female gorillas Altmetric provides a collated score for online attention across various platforms and media.See more details

🦍 What drives female gorillas to pick fights?

A long-term study reveals that aggression isn’t just about dominance. Pregnancy, group size, and male presence also shift the dynamics of who targets whom.
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29.07.2025 20:01 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Gorillas’ personal circumstances shape their aggression towards groupmates Animals can adapt the direction of aggression to more or less powerful rivals to suit their individual needs and social contexts

Individual circumstances & social context influence the aggressive behaviour of female #gorillas towards group members. New study by Nikolaos Smit & Martha Robbins now out in @elife.bsky.social. @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @utu.fi More: tinyurl.com/3baw5dr7 & elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

25.07.2025 07:48 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Another cool study 👇🏼coming from @lummaalab.bsky.social, this time by Veera Schroderus 🎣📖🧶🪡🇫🇮

06.06.2025 10:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Elisabeth Maaria Mikkonen @lummaalab.bsky.social is studying the determinants of milk cortisol concentrations in *semi* captive elephants from Myanmar 🐘🍼 #EMPSEB30

04.06.2025 09:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Tuhat kilometriä mummolaan – sukulaisten vaikutusta hyvinvointiin tutkitaan ensimmäistä kertaa alueellisesta näkökulmasta Pitkien välimatkojen maassa kaupungistuminen erottaa sukupolvia toisistaan. Miten se vaikuttaa lähteneiden ja jääneiden hyvinvointiin? Professori Virpi Lummaa tutkii suomalaisten sukulaisverkostojen vaikutusta hyvinvointiin alueellisesta näkökulmasta.

Eiliseltä: Tuhat kilometriä mummolaan – sukulaisten vaikutusta hyvinvointiin tutkitaan ensimmäistä kertaa alueellisesta näkökulmasta

03.05.2025 11:06 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Strategies, costs and counter‐strategies to sexual coercion Sexual conflict, the conflict between the evolutionary interests of females and males over mating, occasionally results in the evolution of traits favourable for one sex and adverse for the other. In....

A new review paper from our newest lab member!

Strategies, costs and counter-strategies to sexual coercion. 2025. Smit N onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

13.05.2025 19:04 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@melissa-gagniere.bsky.social presented her PhD work at the Aura symposium. She works on 🦊🦡🦝 behavior following an urban gradient in Finland. Follow her for more update to come or even to participate in her study!

20.03.2025 14:31 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Super proud of our PhD @markspa.bsky.social who was practicing his talk for the Aura symposium next week in Turku.
Mark will tell how studying former diseases spread can tell us about future epidemics. #humanhealth #historicaldata #humanresearch

13.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Socioeconomic Differences in Vaccination After a Historical Vaccination Mandate This population-based cohort study examines the association of an 1883 mandatory vaccination law with vaccine coverage rates among infants aged less than 1 year in Finland from 1855 to 1900.

Even highly successful vaccine mandates insufficiently reach lower socioeconomic groups. Check out the latest research of our Human Evolutionary Health team on vaccination in historical Finns, jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#PublicHealth #Vaccines #Mandates

28.02.2025 11:06 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Hi ! We were having some activation email issues and were not allowed to interact until just now😅.
The group is quite diverse now and includes horse, reindeer and cat research. The best is to reach out to Virpi or directly to post docs of the group via email to discuss potential collaborations :)

27.02.2025 14:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?

13.02.2025 15:46 — 👍 21    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much, we just arrived on Bluesky but could you add our research group to the list ? Part of the group works on human life history, health evolution and diversity through historical data from the Nordic countries.

27.02.2025 14:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0