Jenni
Pettay
Docent, Department of Biology
Senior Researcher, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
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Areas of expertise
Evolutionary ecology
behavioral ecology
life history theory
kin selection
reproductive conflict
human evolutionary evolution
Biography
Research
I have been interested in various topics related to fitness variation in humans. For example, how environment affect selection on life-history traits and how social environment and presence of kin affects reproductive behaviour. I have been using pedigree data from historical Finnish populations collected from church book records.
Publications
Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans. (2005)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))