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The Behavioral Control of Reproductive Physiology

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Reproductive Behavior

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

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This paper analyzes the behavioral control of reproductive physiology in animals. Like the other articles on behavioral and social determinants of reproductive behavior in this volume, it treats social or behavioral events as the cause and reproductive physiology as the effect. This is the psychosomatic paradigm; it adds a dimension to the articles included elsewhere in the volume in which the physiological mecha nisms controlling behavior are treated as the cause and behavior as the effect.

The preparation of this article and the research in the author’s laboratory reported therein were supported by NIH grant HD-04522.

This article is dedicated to the late Professor D. S. Lehrman, whose work on the reproductive cycle of ring doves set the paradigm for the integrative study of reproductive behavior and physiology in animals.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    N. T. Adler

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    William Montagna

  2. Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    William A. Sadler

  3. Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    William A. Sadler

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Adler, N.T. (1974). The Behavioral Control of Reproductive Physiology . In: Montagna, W., Sadler, W.A. (eds) Reproductive Behavior. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3069-1_12

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