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Sex and Behavior

Status and Prospectus

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. Thomas E. McGill

    1. Williams College, Williamstown, USA

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  2. Donald A. Dewsbury

    1. University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

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  3. Benjamin D. Sachs

    1. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Evolution and Natural History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Sex and Evolution

      • Burney J. Le Boeuf
      Pages 3-33

    3. Longitudinal Studies of Sexual Behavior in the Oregon Troop of Japanese Macaques

      • G. Gray Eaton
      Pages 35-59

    4. Sex Differences in Preschool Children’s Social Interactions and Use of Space: An Evolutionary Perspective

      • Lawrence V. Harper, Karen M. Sanders
      Pages 61-81

    5. The Comparative Method in Studies of Reproductive Behavior

      • Donald A. Dewsbury
      Pages 83-112

  3. Mechanisms Controlling Reproductive Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Social and Environmental Control of Reproductive Processes in Animals

      • Norman T. Adler
      Pages 115-160

    3. Genotype-Hormone Interactions

      • Thomas E. McGill
      Pages 161-187

    4. Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone Action

      • Richard E. Whalen
      Pages 189-203

    5. Reflexive Mechanisms in Copulatory Behavior

      • Benjamin L. Hart
      Pages 205-242

    6. Neural Plasticity and Feminine Sexual Behavior in the Rat

      • Lynwood G. Clemens
      Pages 243-266

    7. Conceptual and Neural Mechanisms of Masculine Copulatory Behavior

      • Benjamin D. Sachs
      Pages 267-295

    8. The Temporal Patterning of Copulation in Laboratory Rats and Other Muroid Rodents

      • Benjamin D. Sachs, Donald A. Dewsbury
      Pages 297-302

  4. Human Sexuality and sex Differences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303
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    2. Sex Differences in the Human Infant

      • Jerome Kagan
      Pages 305-316

    3. Sex Differences in Cognition: Evidence from the Hawaii Family Study

      • James R. Wilson, Steven G. Vandenberg
      Pages 317-335

    4. Gender and Reproductive State Correlates of Taste Perception in Humans

      • Richard L. Doty
      Pages 337-362

    5. The Context and Consequences of Contemporary Sex Research: A Feminist Perspective

      • Leonore Tiefer
      Pages 363-385

    6. Inside the Human Sex Circus: Prospects for an Ethology of Human Sexuality

      • Gordon Bermant
      Pages 387-404
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Discussion of the precise nature and position of boundaries between dis­ ciplines is nearly always counterproductive; the need is usually to cross them not to emphasize them. And any such discussion of the distinction between ethology and comparative psychology would today seem patently absurd. While there may be differences in outlook, no boundaries exist. But when Frank Beach started in research, that was not the case. Comparative psychology flourished in the United States whereas ethology was unknown. Beach started as a comparative psychologist and has always called himself either that or a behavioral endocrinologist. Yet, among the com­ parative psychologists of his generation, he has had closer links with the initially European ethologists than almost any other. He was indeed one of the editors of the first volume of Behaviour. That this should have been so is not surprising once one knows that his Ph. D. thesis concerned "The Neural Basis for Innate Behavior," that he used to sleep in the laboratory so that he could watch mother rats giving birth, and that in 1935 he was using model young to analyze maternal behavior. Furthermore, for nine years he worked in the American Museum of Natural History-in a department first named Experimental Biology and later, when Beach had saved it from extinction and become its chairman, the Department of Animal Behavior. It was in 1938, during Frank's time at the American Museum, that he was first introduced to Niko Tinbergen by Ernst Mayr.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Williams College, Williamstown, USA

    Thomas E. McGill

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Donald A. Dewsbury

  • University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

    Benjamin D. Sachs

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sex and Behavior

  • Book Subtitle: Status and Prospectus

  • Editors: Thomas E. McGill, Donald A. Dewsbury, Benjamin D. Sachs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0421-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1978

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-31084-3Published: 01 April 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0423-2Published: 08 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0421-8Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 436

  • Topics: Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Psychology, general, Behavioral Sciences

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