Personal profile
Research interests
PhD thesis: Family matters - The role of trade-offs in shaping human life-histories and health (2025)
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 5 Gender Equality
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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The long-lasting legacy of reproduction: Lifetime reproductive success shapes expected genetic contributions of humans after 10 generations
Young, E. A., Chesterton, E., Lummaa, V., Postma, E. & Dugdale, H. L., 10-May-2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290, 1998, 10 p., 20230287.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Age- and sex-dependent associations between the number of older siblings and early-life survival in pre-industrial humans
Spa, M., Young, E. A., Lummaa, V., Postma, E. & Dugdale, H. L., 3-Sept-2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 292, 2054, 11 p., 20251525.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Family matters: The role of trade-offs in shaping human life-histories and health
Young, E. A., 2025, [Groningen]: University of Groningen. 238 p.Research output: Thesis › Thesis fully internal (DIV)
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Mothers facing greater environmental adversity experience increased costs of reproduction
Young, E. A., Postma, E., Lummaa, V. & Dugdale, H. L., 7-Nov-2025, In: Science Advances. 11, 45, 11 p., eadz6422.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Lifespan costs of reproduction increase during the Great Finnish Famine
Young, E. A., Postma, E., Lummaa, V. & Dugdale, H. L., 25-Dec-2024, (Submitted) BioRxiv, 27 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Quantitative genetics of human life-history
Dugdale, H. (PI), Lummaa, V. (PI), Postma, E. (Collaborator) & Young, E. (PhD student)
01/02/2021 → 01/02/2025
Project: Research
Activities
- 4 Academic presentation
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Single-generation fitness proxies as predictors of long-term genetic contributions in a cooperatively breeding bird
Chesterton, E. (Contributor), Young, E. (Speaker), Sparks, A. M. (Contributor), Burke, T. (Contributor), Komdeur, J. (Contributor), Richardson, D. S. (Contributor) & Dugdale, H. (Speaker)
23-Apr-2024Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
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The consequences of parental age on offspring fitness in humans
Young, E. (Contributor), Dugdale, H. (Speaker) & Postma, E. (Contributor)
23-Apr-2024Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
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Single-generation fitness proxies as predictors of long-term genetic contributions in the Seychelles warbler
Dugdale, H. (Speaker), Young, E. (Contributor), Versteegh, M. (Contributor) & Komdeur, J. (Contributor)
27-Jun-2024Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
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Offspring reproductive success is a greater determinant of human genetic contributions than offspring number or survival
Young, E. A. (Speaker), Chesterton, E. (Contributor), Lummaa, V. (Contributor), Postma, E. (Contributor) & Dugdale, H. (Contributor)
29-Jul-2022Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
Datasets
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Replication Data for: Age- and sex-dependent associations between the number of older siblings and early-life survival in preindustrial humans
Spa, M. (Creator), Young, E. A. (Creator), Lummaa, V. (Creator), Postma, E. (Creator) & Dugdale, H. L. (Creator), DataverseNL, 5-Aug-2025
DOI: 10.34894/4w9urw
Dataset
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Replication Data for: Mothers facing greater environmental adversity experience increased costs of reproduction
Young, E. A. (Creator), Postma, E. (Creator), Lummaa, V. (Creator) & Dugdale, H. L. (Creator), DataverseNL, 7-Oct-2025
DOI: 10.34894/hewsrp
Dataset
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Replication Data for: The long-lasting legacy of reproduction: Lifetime reproductive success shapes expected genetic contributions of humans after ten generations
Young, E. A. (Creator), Chesterton, E. (Creator), Lummaa, V. (Creator), Postma, E. (Creator) & Dugdale, H. L. (Creator), DataverseNL, 13-Apr-2023
DOI: 10.34894/p2etyz
Dataset
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Replication Data for: Low interspecific variation and no phylogenetic signal in additive genetic variance in wild bird and mammal populations
Young, E. A. (Creator) & Postma, E. (Creator), DataverseNL, 6-Oct-2023
DOI: 10.34894/rivfhw
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Press/Media
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More children, shorter lifespan? Clear evidence from the Great Finnish Famine
06/11/2025 → 15/01/2026
29 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research › Popular
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Will a child survive? Older siblings have a powerful influence
Dugdale, H., Spa, M., Young, E., Lummaa, V. & Postma, E.
05/09/2025 → 16/09/2025
5 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research › Academic
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