Weird and wonderful results from the realm of life history theory (i.e. how to 'schedule' one's life).

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Umbers, K.D.L., Symonds, M.R.E. & Kokko, H. In press. The mothematics of female pheromone signalling: strategies for aging virgins. American Naturalist.

Kokko, H. 2013. How wise is Mother Nature? Maximization, optimization and short-sighted resource use in biological evolution. Pages 69-80 in: Human happiness and the pursuit of maximization: is more always better? ((H. Brockmann & J. Delhey, eds.) Springer.

Jeschke, J.M. & Kokko, H. 2009. The roles of body size and phylogeny in fast and slow life histories. Evolutionary Ecology 23:867-878.

Jeschke, J.M. & Kokko, H. 2008. Mortality and other determinants of bird divorce rate. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63:1-9.

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Heubel, K., Lindström, K. & Kokko, H. 2008. Females increase reproductive effort when future access to males is uncertain. Biology Letters 4:224-227.

Jeschke, J.M., Gabriel, W. & Kokko, H. 2008. Population dynamics: r-strategists / K-strategists. Pages 3113-3122 in: Encyclopedia of Ecology (Jørgensen, S.E. & Fath, B.D., eds.) Elsevier B.V., Oxford.

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Sarhan, A. & Kokko, H. 2007. Multiple mating in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: a case of within-generation bet-hedging? Evolution 61:606-616.

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Stoehr, A. & Kokko, H. 2006. Sex differences in immunocompetence: what does life history theory predict? Behavioral Ecology 17:751-756.

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Härdling, R. & Kokko, H. 2003. Life history traits as causes or consequences of social behaviour: why do cooperative breeders lay small clutches? Evolutionary Ecology Research 5:691-700.

Brommer, J.E., Merilä, J. & Kokko, H. 2002. Reproductive timing and individual fitness. Ecology Letters 5:802-810.

Brommer, J.E., Pietiäinen, H. & Kokko, H. 2002. Cyclic variation in seasonal recruitment and the evolution of the seasonal decline in Ural owl clutch size. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269:647-654.

Kokko, H., Lindström, J. & Ranta, E. 2001. Life histories and sustainable harvesting. Pages 301–322 in: Conservation of Exploited Species (eds. J.D. Reynolds, G.M. Mace, K.H. Redford & J.G. Robinson). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Brommer, J. E., Kokko, H. & Pietiäinen, H. 2000. Reproductive effort and reproductive values in periodic environments. American Naturalist 155:454-472.

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Kokko, H. 1998. Good genes, old age and life history trade-offs. Evolutionary Ecology 12:739-750.

Kokko, H. 1997. Evolutionarily stable strategies of age-dependent sexual advertisement. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 41:99-107.

Kokko, H. & Lindström, J. 1996. Evolution of female preference for old mates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263:1533-1538.

Kokko, H. & Ranta, E. 1996. Evolutionary optimality of delayed breeding in voles. Oikos 77:173-175.