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Reproductive Behavior

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  • © 1974

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Editors:
  1. William Montagna

    1. Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Beaverton, USA

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  2. William A. Sadler

    1. Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health, Bethesda, USA
      Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Behavioral Biology (ABBI, volume 11)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  3. Pheromones and Hormones in Reproductive Behavior

    1. Pheromones in Primate Reproduction and Social Behavior

      • Gisela Epple
      Pages 131-155

    2. Relationships between Scent Marking by Male Mice and the Pheromone-Induced Secretion of the Gonadotropic and Ovarian Hormones that Accompany Puberty in Female Mice

      • F. H. Bronson, Claude Desjardins
      Pages 157-178

    3. Effects of Progesterone on Female Reproductive Behavior in Rats: Possible Modes of Action and Role in Behavioral Sex Differences

      • Lee-Ming Kow, Charles W. Malsbury, Donald W. Pfaff
      Pages 179-210

    4. The Relationship between Fetal Hormones and the Differentiation of the Central Nervous System in Primates

      • John A. Resko
      Pages 211-222

    5. Social Factors Affecting the Development of Mounting Behavior in Male Rhesus Monkeys

      • Robert W. Goy, Kim Wallen, David A. Goldfoot
      Pages 223-247

    6. The Role of Androgens in the Sexual Behavior of Adult Male Rhesus Monkeys

      • Charles H. Phoenix
      Pages 249-258

  4. Behavioral and Social Determinants of Reproductive Behavior

    1. The Behavioral Control of Reproductive Physiology

      • N. T. Adler
      Pages 259-286

    2. Male Dominance and Aggression in Japanese Macaque Reproduction

      • G. Gray Eaton
      Pages 287-297

    3. The Reproductive Behavior of Minority Groups in the U.S.A.

      • Harley L. Browning
      Pages 299-317

    4. Fertility Behavior of American Women

      • Larry L. Bumpass
      Pages 319-332

  5. Special Lecture

    1. Human Sexuality and Evolution

      • Frank A. Beach
      Pages 333-365

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 367-376
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Sexual compatibility between male and female partners is in­ dispensable to normal and successful fertilization in mammals. Thus, the genes from males and females whose sexual behavior is characterized by awkwardness, ineptness, and miscues are elimi­ nated from the gene pool of the species. In human societies, this compatibility is not always evident; and the behavior that precedes and accompanies copulation and fertilization is exceed­ ingly complex and affected by many variables. As in most other species of animals, the entire repertoire of reproductive behavior of man is not well understood by man. When viewed, discussed, or reported, the topic is too often and most unfortunately regarded as an amalgam of emotion, mysticism, and biology. In the past, such emotion-charged approaches to the biologi­ cal fact of reproduction did much to obfuscate the subject; and as a result, much of the array of hormonal, neural, psychological, and social variables that control and insure the successful repro­ duction of the human species remains even now in Victorian ignor­ ance. But with the recent rash of books and scientific treatises on the subject, some progress has been made in elucidating human reproduction and associated sexual behavior. However, so entrench­ ed are some of our social taboos that the danger still lurks of equating social acceptance of the words with an understandin- all too lacking--of the process to which they refer.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Beaverton, USA

    William Montagna

  • Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health, Bethesda, USA

    William A. Sadler

  • Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

    William A. Sadler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reproductive Behavior

  • Editors: William Montagna, William A. Sadler

  • Series Title: Advances in Behavioral Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3069-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-3071-4Published: 14 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-3069-1Published: 13 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0099-6246

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 376

  • Topics: Zoology

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